Earth Poetry: Ecology, Language, and Planetary Crisis 3302-PZEIKP-OG

The lecture invites participants to delve into the relationship between poetry and ecology, exploring how language can influence our perception and responses to the ecological crisis. Through the lens of poetry, we will explore various aspects related to nature, environmental pollution, biodiversity loss, and other challenges posed by contemporary reality. We aim to broaden our understanding of the role of poetry in the context of the ecological crisis, as well as explore the possibilities of using language as a tool to build connections with nature and mobilize society to take action for environmental protection. During the lecture, concepts related to biosemiotics will also be discussed, examining the significance of biological processes in the creation of meanings and interpretations in language and culture. Utilizing these concepts will allow us to better understand how our interaction with nature is encoded in language and what implications it has for our perception of the world and our potential for action. Finally, the lecture will also reflect on the planetary crisis as a challenge that requires both individual reflection and global mobilization. Through the analysis of ecological poetry and discussions on ways to use language to build ecological awareness, we will seek inspiration and strategies that can contribute to creating a more sustainable and responsible relationship between humans and nature.

– Aloi, Giovanni, Susan McHugh (eds.), Posthumanism in Art and Science. A Reader, New York 2021;
– Bakke, Monika, Bio-transfiguracje. Sztuka i estetyka posthumanizmu, Poznań 2015;
– Bennett, Jane, Vibrant Matter. A Political Ecology of Things, Durham/London 2010;
– Barad, Karen, Posthumanistyczna performatywność: ku zrozumieniu, jak
materia zaczyna mieć znaczenie, przeł. Joanna Bednarek, w: Agnieszka Gajewska (red.), Teorie
wywrotowe. Antologia przekładów, Poznań 2012, s. 323–360;
– Braidotti, Rosi, Po człowieku, przeł. Joanna Bednarek, Agnieszka Kowalczyk, Warszawa 2014;
– Domańska, Ewa, Humanistyka ekologiczna, w: „Teksty Drugie” 2013, 1-2, s. 13-32;
– Fiedorczuk, Julia, Gerardo Beltrán, Ekopoetyka. Ekologiczna obrona poezji, Warszawa 2020;
– Fiedorczuk, Julia, Paweł Piszczatowski (ed.), Places that the map can’t contain: Poetics in the Anthropocene, Göttingen 2023;
– Haraway, Donna, Manifest cyborgów, przeł. Sławomir Królak, Ewa Majewska. w: „Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki”, 1 (3), 2003, s. 49–87;
– Haraway, Donna, Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Durham/London 2016;
– Morton, Timothy, Dark Ecology. For a Logic of Future Coexistence, New York 2016.

The classes are conducted online and held in Polish.