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Vivek Santayana


Doctoral Candidate in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.
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Tag Archives: Environmental Humanities

Picturing Deep Time

26 Wednesday Jul 2017

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Anthropocene, Barns Ness, Deep Time, Environmental Humanities, Fossils

A walk down to Barns Ness trying to photograph deep time. How does one picture 320 billion years of time in a single exposure of a 320th of a second? This was a vexing problem that I tried to work through while on a photography expedition out near Dunbar.

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The Ethics of Smell: Corporeal Porosity and the Embodiment of Care

02 Sunday Jul 2017

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Donna Haraway, Embodiment, Environmental Humanities, Gail Weiss, Improbable Research, Intercorporeality, Phenomenology, Smell

How can thinking of bodies through smell reveal the complexities of the embodied relations between them? This is a meditation on how we interact with other bodies through their smell, and how smell reveals their inner workings in ways that sight or sound do not.

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Liquid Cats at the Flow of Time

16 Friday Jun 2017

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Cats, Deep Time, Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network, Environmental Humanities, Improbable Research, Rheology

Cats are an unlikely fluid: rather surprisingly, according to rheology, cats can also flow! But what can the flow of cats tell us about our understanding of deep time?

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