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Out for a Walk

Author(s): Bennett, Jane

Abstract

I explore two walks, one by Henry Thoreau on a hot day in 1851 and one by a line as it winds its way into a doodle today. Walks, I contend, generate circuits of energies and affects, some issuing from people, some from elsewhere. The goal is to accent how ahuman energies and affects inscribe themselves upon selves and inflect their positions and dispositions. Borrowing a term from Lorenz Engell, I call this inscriptive inflection an ›ontographic‹ procedure. Ontography will mark the operations of a creative cosmos, of a more-than-human world continuously impressing itself upon us. At the end, I leave the ontographic to return to the linguistic, to human attempts to ›write up‹ the ahuman ontographies they experience.

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Bennett, Jane: Out for a Walk. In: ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung, Jg. 10 (2019), Nr. 1, S. 93-105. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18727.
@ARTICLE{Bennett2019,
 author = {Bennett, Jane},
 title = {Out for a Walk},
 year = 2019,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18727}",
 volume = 10,
 address = {Hamburg},
 journal = {ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung},
 number = 1,
 pages = {93--105},
}
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