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Item Arctic-Oceanic New York(Punctum Books, 2015-09-18) Duckert, LowellI would that my name be carved on the tablets of the sea. —Letter from Henry Hudson to Richard Hakluyt Hudson achieved in 1609 nothing memorable, even by this new way. —Hessel Gerritz1 In the summer of 1609, under orders from theDutch East India...Item Recreation(Oliphaunt Books, 2014-09-23) Duckert, LowellIf you seek to create, love springs, fountains, precious stones, the high summits of mountains, the layers of the on- ion, the leaves of the artichoke, the look of the sea lion, ger- minal cells, children, all filled to bursting with information like blue supergiants. Michel Serres,...Item Speaking Stones, John Muir, and a Slower (Non)humanities(Oliphaunt Books, 2012-05-07) Duckert, LowellBy the time you arrive at this point in the collection, you will have realized that the essays herein demand a slow reading. Perfect: the practice of tracing connections between actors, slowly, as Bruno Latour’s ant (or ANT, short for Actor Network Theory) would tell us, is the way to go. According to Latour’s self-defined “slowciology,” we are to follow the actors themselves—examining the relationships they assemble, interrupt, or disturb. Latour’s process is “agonizingly slow” by necessity.² Yet in writing my response, I find myself running down a fast lane. The time when these authors first presented their work...Item World Change/Sea Change(Oliphaunt Books, 2014-04-28) Duckert, Lowell; Mentz, SteveBIRD FUTURES In the future I want, I am a cormorant. A screeching sea- crow, I perch on a high branch on the Tree of Life over- looking Paradise. My eyes flare with greed, and with two senses of the word “want.” Things...