August 24 – Introductions
August 31 – The Ragged Edge of the World
Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous Peoples Meet
War and Peace; Culture Wars; Roads to Ruin; Apes at the Brink
September 7 – The Ragged Edge of the World (continued)
The Antipodes: The Long Reach of Humanity; The Near Wild; Survivors; Inner Worlds: Magic, Practical and Otherwise
September 14 – Animism
Respecting the Living World
From Derogatory to Critical Term; Animist Case Studies
September 21 – Animism (continued)
Animist Issues; Animism’s Challenges
September 28 – Coming Home to the Pleistocene
The Relevance of the Past; Getting a Genome; How We Once Lived; How the Mind Once Lived; Savages Again
October 5 – Coming Home to the Pleistocene (continued)
Romancing the Potato; The Cowboy Alternative; Wildness and Wilderness; The New Mosaic—A Primal Closure
October 10 (Monday 8:00 a.m.) – PROPOSAL DUE
October 12 – The Spell of the Sensuous
Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
The Ecology of Magic; Philosophy on the Way to Ecology; The Flesh of Language
October 19 – The Spell of the Sensuous (continued)
Animism and the Alphabet; In the Landscape of Language
October 24 (Monday 8:00 a.m.) – BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE
October 26 – The Spell of the Sensuous (continued)
Time, Space, and the Eclipse of the Earth; The Forgetting and Remembering of the Air; Coda: Turning Inside Out
November 2 – Lovelock and Gaia
Signs of Life
Goldilocks’ Planet; Origins; Going Public; From Hypothesis to Theory; From Gaia to Geophysiology; From Geophysiology to Earth System Science; Gaia Gets Respectable
November 7 (Monday 8:00 a.m.) – OUTLINE DUE
November 9 – Hunting Sacred, Everything Listens
A Pueblo Indian Man’s Oral Tradition Legacy
North; West; South; East
November 16 – Presentations, HANDOUT DUE
November 23 – Fall Break
November 30 – Projects
December 7 – Conclusions, PAPER DUE
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