Oracles and Divinations: A Monument to Biocultural Diversity Loss.

Creator

Barry J. Mauer, University of Central FloridaFollow

Keywords

Deleuze, Barthes, Derrida, abject loss, coffee farmers, Oaxaca, backyard chickens, divination, ancient oracles, Oxfam, Gandhi, Dairy Queen, Burger King

Abstract

This essay explores the emergency posed by global biocultural diversity loss and the emergence of a new form of electronic monumentality, theorized by Gregory Ulmer in Electronic Monuments, and used here to address the biocultural diversity crisis. Like Ulmer, who created an agency - the EmerAgency - to produce electronic monuments, I have done the same.

Publication Date

2012

Original Citation

Mauer, Barry Jason, ‘Oracles and Divinations: A Monument to Biocultural Diversity Loss’, Excursions, 3, 1 (2012) URL: http://www.excursions-journal.org.uk/index.php/excursions/article/view/58

Document Type

Paper

Copyright Status

Author retained

Publication Version

Publisher's version

College

College of Arts and Humanities

Location

Orlando (Main) Campus

Department

English

STARS Citation

Mauer, Barry J., "Oracles and Divinations: A Monument to Biocultural Diversity Loss." (2012). Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 608.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ucfscholar/608