dc.contributor.author | Cooke, Stuart | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-03T03:44:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-12-03T03:44:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1076-0962 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/isle/isaa121 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/399885 | |
dc.description.abstract | In 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.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 466 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 493 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 2 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 29 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Ecocriticism | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 470509 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 470212 | |
dc.subject.keywords | Critical Animal Studies | |
dc.subject.keywords | Environmental Humanities | |
dc.title | Nonhuman Complexity Poetics: Leaf-Cutter Ants and Multispecies Composition | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Cooke, 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.updated | 2020-12-02T03:26:50Z | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Cooke, Stuart S. | |