We kill our own: towards a material ecology of farm life. Issue 4 (1st October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Broderick, Michael; Gleason, Sean
• Is Part Of: Text and performance quarterly. Volume 36:Issue 4(2016)
• Page Start: 250
• Page End: 264
• Publication Date: 2016-10-01
• Subjects: Posthumanism -- affect -- rhythm -- farming -- ethnography; Oral communication -- Periodicals; Literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; 302.224205
• DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2016.1230677
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1046-2937

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Drawing from fieldwork conducted over several months at a small Appalachian goat farm, experimental prose is coupled with affect-based critiques of human exceptionalism to uncover the rhythmic and vibrant relations of human/nonhuman interdependence (Gruen 5). Taking seriously the posthuman call to reimagine animal, human, and material relations, we envision farming as a rhythmic and affect-laden atmosphere of habit, co-constitution, and vibrant materiality.