Devin Griffiths is an associate professor at the University of Southern California. He’s the author of The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature Between the Darwins (Hopkins), and with Deanna Kreisel, editor of After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge). His new project is “The Ecology of Power.”
Devin Griffiths
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B-Sides: “Under the Sea-Wind” by Rachel Carson
Bill McKibben proclaimed nature’s demise in 1989. But Americans who cared about DDT’s poisonous effect and the extinctions that would follow had been warned almost three decades earlier. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) famously opens by imagining a world denuded of plant and animal life. In fact, it wasn’t only Americans Carson managed to terrify. […]
