Living, Dying and Thinking with Decomposers: Environmental Humanities and the Question of Method

Join Christopher Walker, Assistant Professor of English at Colby College, USA for an intriguing talk:

Recent scholarship in the Environmental Humanities has proposed that we should "think with" the more-than-human world as a method for addressing anthropocentric ideologies and combating environmental crises. But what does it mean to think “with” other beings, matter, environments, or ecosystems? And how might those methods be developed in ethical ways in which this new thought doesn’t merely reduce the world to a tool for human activities? In this talk, I explore how the environmental humanities challenge traditional questions and methodologies of humanities knowledge production. To do so, I consider the current explosion of imaginative literature engaging with fungi and mushrooms to ask what entangled thought looks like from the perspective of decomposers.

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