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dc.contributor.authorCooke, Stuart
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-03T03:44:35Z
dc.date.available2020-12-03T03:44:35Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.issn1076-0962
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/isle/isaa121
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/399885
dc.description.abstractIn this article I examine leaf-cutter ants, and particularly their nest architecture, in terms of what I call an ‘ethological poetics.’ I propose that thinking about leaf-cutter architecture is an engagement with a radically alternative aesthetics. I begin by contrasting human and insect ontologies, before focusing on ants. I then outline characteristics of leaf-cutter societies. Having established a broad, ontological basis for their production, I conclude by analysing leaf-cutter nest architecture. Leaf-cutter architecture is based not on predetermined plans, but on a transcorporeal poetics of immanence, or a multispecies process of making that is entangled with the living conditions of an environmental field.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.publisherOxford University Press (OUP)
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom466
dc.relation.ispartofpageto493
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
dc.relation.ispartofvolume29
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEcocriticism
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMulticultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode470509
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode470212
dc.subject.keywordsCritical Animal Studies
dc.subject.keywordsEnvironmental Humanities
dc.titleNonhuman Complexity Poetics: Leaf-Cutter Ants and Multispecies Composition
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationCooke, G, Nonhuman Complexity Poetics: Leaf-Cutter Ants and Multispecies Composition, ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2022, 29 (2), pp. 466–493
dc.date.updated2020-12-02T03:26:50Z
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gro.griffith.authorCooke, Stuart S.


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