"Heterogeneous Being: The Inhumanities and the Creative-Scientific Aest" by Steven L. Ogden

Date of Award

Spring 2025

Language

English

Embargo Period

4-27-2025

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of English

Program

English

First Advisor

Mike Hill

Committee Members

Mike Hill, Kristen Hessler, David O. Carpenter

Keywords

Inhuman, creative-science, nonhuman, anthropogenic pollution, endocrine disruption, forever chemicals

Subject Categories

Environmental Health | Literature in English, North America | Modern Literature | Other English Language and Literature

Abstract

Heterogeneous Being attempts to set the often-disunited aspects of the sciences and humanities in congruence and to extol and advance a hybrid creative-scientific aesthetic that moves beyond any restricted dimensions of its previously segregated fields of study. It likewise expresses the need to perpetuate that hybrid form of inquiry and representation to successfully address or convey the precarious realities of Earth’s ecological and environmental conditions. Heterogeneous Being asks readers to observe the inexhaustible proofs of our pluralized configurations with the nonhuman world, to recognize the agentic potentialities nonhuman subjects may hold both in and outside of those inhuman enmeshments, and to appreciate the varied temporospatial subjectivities and influences of the nonhuman character while doing so. For these inhuman examinations not only provide the nonhuman with a comparable or more profound existence alongside our own, but they also illustrate the immense and consequential scope of our collective realities.

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This work is licensed under the University at Albany Standard Author Agreement.

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