WEEK 2: From Weeds to Wandering: Becoming Weird, Becoming Plant

Presentation 2: From Weeds to Wandering: Becoming Weird, Becoming Plant 

• (Non)anthropocentrism and its relationship to eco-feminism 
• Introduction to The Weird as a literary form and cultural expression of the unknown (discuss H.P. Lovecraft short story) 
• Compare The Weird to The New Weird, discuss Elvia Wilk’s essay “The Word Made Fresh”/Death by Landscape 

Breakout Group Discussion:

Discuss Margaret Atwood’s “Death by Landscape” main themes, approaches to transformation, concepts of plants/wilderness in relationship to The New Weird literary genre 

In-class Exercise 2: 

Writing/Drawing Exercise: Dissolution of the Self/Re-writing the “Self as We Know It”