"These Survivals is an experimental manuscript that plays with form and genre to think and feel ethics in the age of the Anthropocene. A full color, collage-style work in fragments, the book brings together philosophy, poetry, and original artworks to articulate an ethics of living on a devastated planet. With a focus on climate change and mass species extinction, Lynne Huffer approaches ruination through assemblages rendered in sharp-edged prose, vibrant color images, and moveable book elements. Its abiding theme is a repeated phrase: the fragment remains while the whole crumbles. From fossils to Sappho's fragments to New York Times cutouts pasted onto a substrate, the fragment's incompletion invites the reader into practices of transformation in the midst of uncertainty and the spectre of worlds ending. Elements of the author's life are integral to the weave of the book as the book's narrator struggles with everyday life while confronting the immensity of extinction across the expanse of geological time. These Survivals opens a space for thought to emerge in unexpected and innovative ways-ways that are always grounded in the material practices of writing and living"--
A collage-style work in fragments, Lynne Huffers These Survivals brings together philosophy, memoir, poetry, and original multimedia artworks to articulate an ethics of living on a devastated planet. Focusing on climate change and mass species extinction, Huffer approaches ruination through assemblages rendered in sharp-edged prose, vibrant color images, and experimental features that include black-out poems, weather reports, and abecedarian essays. She considers her struggles with everyday life and confronts the immensity of extinction across the expanse of geological time, recognizing the selfs insignificance in the context of the planets 4.5-billion-year existence. As she moves across autobiographical, political, and literary registers, her abiding theme is the repeated phrase: the fragment remains while the whole crumbles. At every turn, Huffer insists on the fragmentary, provisional nature of anything taken to be whole as well as the impartial conditions under which we write, at times experienced as constraint and at others, freedom. Reveling in interruption, obliquity, and layering, Huffer opens space for thought to emerge in unexpected and innovative waysways that are grounded in the material practices of writing and living.
A collage-style work, Lynne Huffers These Survivals brings together philosophy, memoir, poetry, and original multimedia artworks to explore the fragmented, provisional nature of life on a devastated planet.
A collage-style work in fragments, Lynne Huffers These Survivals brings together philosophy, memoir, poetry, and original multimedia artworks to articulate an ethics of living on a devastated planet. Focusing on climate change and mass species extinction, Huffer approaches ruination through assemblages rendered in sharp-edged prose, vibrant color images, and experimental features that include black-out poems, weather reports, and abecedarian essays. She considers her struggles with everyday life and confronts the immensity of extinction across the expanse of geological time, recognizing the selfs insignificance in the context of the planets 4.5-billion-year existence. As she moves across autobiographical, political, and literary registers, her abiding theme is the repeated phrase: the fragment remains while the whole crumbles. At every turn, Huffer insists on the fragmentary, provisional nature of anything taken to be whole as well as the impartial conditions under which we write, at times experienced as constraint and at others, freedom. Reveling in interruption, obliquity, and layering, Huffer opens space for thought to emerge in unexpected and innovative waysways that are grounded in the material practices of writing and living.
A collage-style work, Lynne Huffers These Survivals brings together philosophy, memoir, poetry, and original multimedia artworks to explore the fragmented, provisional nature of life on a devastated planet.
