HeyJaredCatasterism
I write on literature, philosophy, and ecology, attempting to unite them in what we might call, as a nexus-point for all three, "the cosmological"
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Shelley in flux (opens the original)
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To succeed in understanding Percy Shelley, I think you need to consent to having a mind in motion. You need to consent to exhaustion. You need to consent, as he always did, to a certain, relentless form of thinking which taxes cognition to its limit, and then learns lessons from that exhausted state—ones you’ll never receive through the usual raptures of poetry. Why would anyone consent to this? Because I suspect that in that tranced exhaustion—amidst the blasted ruins of conventional poetic ima
Romanticism and making myth (opens the original)
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In 1821, the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge did the one thing he did best—besides write world-endingly good poetry—and plagiarized a concept. Drawing upon F. W. J. Schelling, he coined “tautegory,” a term to describe a kind of energetic “base” of symbolic expression. He defined tautegory as distinct from allegory, which points at a meaning away from itself.1 Our received synthesis of tautegory calls it self-positing, meaning: rather tha
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