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7. Excursions into the Wild

verfasst von : Gregory Blair

Erschienen in: Errant Bodies, Mobility, and Political Resistance

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter examines instances of what Scott Slovic calls “going away to think” and how going away also implies a return, creating a continuous oscillation between being grounded and groundlessness. These samples reveal how becoming an errant body, even perhaps only intermittently, can provide the foundation for a compendium of innovative thoughts and new ways to be in relation with the world. In many cases, this has meant breaking from the world and sidestepping its limitations in order to reach a new frontier. A diverse juxtaposition will bring together disparate “excursions into the wild” by Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Jean Baudrillard, and Hamish Fulton in order to demonstrate how being in retreat can be a method of engagement—how getting lost can lead to discovery.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Rambling and Restlessness

Nächstes Kapitel Emergent Errant Bodies

Scott Slovic, Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2008). 19.

Ibid. 12.

“Wild | Origin and Meaning of Wild by Online Etymology Dictionary,” accessed April 2, 2018, https://www.etymonline.com/word/wild.

Several organizations cite Thoreau as an influence on their political activities. Groups such as National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee advocates citizens to follow Thoreau’s own refusal to pay taxes and even offers instructions on how to be a participant. Several texts and essays have also been published which explore the legacy of Thoreau’s political resistance such as Transcendental Learning: The Educational Legacy of Alcott, Emerson, Fuller, Peabody and Thoreau by John P. Miller, The Life and Legacy of “Civil Disobedience” by Linck Johnson, Readings of Thoreau’s “Resistance to Civil Government” by Wynn Yarborough, and Several More Lives to Live: Thoreau’s Political Reputation In America by Michael Meyer.

Annie Russell Marble [photographs by Alfred Hosmer], Thoreau: His Home, Friends, and Books (New York: AMS Press, 1969): 118.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (Beacon Press, 2004). 297.

Ibid. 48.

Ibid. 10.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Resistance to Civil Government, 2nd ed. (W. W. Norton, 1992). 276.

Charles A. Madison, “Margaret Fuller: Transcendental Rebel,” The Antioch Review 2, no. 3 (1942): 435.

Ibid. 431–432.

Edward W. Soja, Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (London: Verso, 2011). 6.

Megan Marshall, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (Boston: Mariner Books, 2014). 205.

Margaret Fuller, Summer on the Lakes (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017). 28.

Carmen Birkle, “Travelogues of Independence: Margaret Fuller and Henry David Thoreau,” Amerikastudien/American Studies 48, no. 4 (2003): 500.

Ibid. 497.

Ibid. 508.

Meg Murray, Margaret Fuller, Wandering Pilgrim (University of Georgia Press, 2012). 5.

Jean Baudrillard, Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit (Verso, 1998). 84.

Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Walking (London: Verso, 2014). 23.

Ibid. 80.

Jean Baudrillard, America, New ed. (London; New York: Verso, 2010). 87.

Ibid. 88.

Ibid. 10.

Ibid. 71.

Bill McKibben et al., Hamish Fulton: Walking Journey (Tate, 2002). 21.

Ibid. 106.

Ibid. 107.

Ibid. 28.

Sarah Gold, Karlyn De Jongh, and Peter Lodermeyer, Personal Structures: Time-Space-Existence (Cologne: DuMont, 2010). 188.

Bill McKibben et al., Hamish Fulton: Walking Journey (Tate, 2002). 15.

Deirdre Heddon and Jennie Klein, eds., Histories and Practices of Live Art (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). 94.

Ibid. 98.

Sarah Gold, Karlyn De Jongh, and Peter Lodermeyer, Personal Structures: Time-Space-Existence (Cologne: DuMont, 2010). 184.

Bill McKibben et al., Hamish Fulton: Walking Journey (Tate, 2002). 23.

Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009). 4.

Megan Marshall, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (Boston: Mariner Books, 2014). 206.

Jean Baudrillard, America, New ed. (London; New York: Verso, 2010). 133.

Titel: Excursions into the Wild
verfasst von: Gregory Blair
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Errant Bodies, Mobility, and Political Resistance
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-95746-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-95747-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95747-0_7