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Who Speaks?: Interventions 309 Lisa Myobun Freinkel Lisa Myobun Freinkel is associate professor of English and compar- ative literature at the University of Oregon. She has published three other articles in this journal: “Reading’s Response,” Qui Parle 3:1, 1989; “The Analogy of Form: Mourning and Kant’s ‘Third Cri- tique,’” Qui Parle 4:2, 1991; and “On John Rajchman Truth and Eros: Foucault, Lacan, and the Question of Ethics,” Qui Parle 5:2, Nature’s Speech Has the ancient practice of geomancy, through which sensitive inter- preters parse natural signs, been reconfigured as the means by which we denizens of the Anthropocene attend to nature’s speech? Such a “geomantic turn,” I suggest, aims to make legible a problem basic to vernacular environmental knowledge: that we now routinely face in- tractable epistemological challenges in relation to earthly signs and their ambiguous production. We aspire to access nature’s speech through anxious environmental reading that fuses the material and symbolic into an uncanny symbiosis with earth, albeit one that rou- tinely stages the communicative failure of those efforts. Since the late fourteenth century, geomancy has been defined as the art of divination by means of signs derived from earth. To divine is to discover,
Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Apr 5, 2018
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