What Are We Going to Do? Recentering With Janet Miller for the More-Than-Human

• In Event: More-Than-Human Matterings and Curricular Troublings, (Re)Centerings, and Noticings

Abstract

This dialogue with Janet Miller, from her early work in the 1980s through the present, explores a post-human response to situatedness and embodiment, and demonstrate possible things to consider when we want to avoid centering human experience--when we strive to steward a universe determined as much by the more-than-human participants in our “situations” as by humans. The problem is, even to ask the fundamental question, ‘What are we going to do?’ (Miller 1992) ironically fixates on our own actions, ourselves. But, maybe not too much?

Author

• Peter M. Appelbaum, Arcadia University