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Author: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
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Emphasizing sustainability, balance, and the natural, green dominates our thinking about ecology like no other color. What about the catastrophic, the disruptive, the inaccessible, and the excessive? What of the oceans turbulence, the fecundity of excrement, the solitude of an iceberg, multihued contaminations? Prismatic Ecology moves beyond the accustomed green readings of ecotheory and maps a colorful world of ecological possibility. In a series of linked essays that span place, time, and discipline, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen brings together writers who illustrate the vibrant worlds formed by colors. Organized by the structure of a prism, each chapter explores the coming into existence of nonanthropocentric ecologies. Red engages sites of animal violence, apocalyptic emergence, and activism Maroon follows the aurora borealis to the far North and beholds in its shimmering alternative modes of world composition Chartreuse is a meditation on postsustainability and possibility within sublime excess Grey is the color of the undead Ultraviolet is a potentially lethal force that opens vistas beyond humanly known nature. Featuring established and emerging scholars from varying disciplines, this volume presents a collaborative imagining of what a more-than-green ecology offers. While highlighting critical approaches not yet common within ecotheory, the contributions remain diverse and cover a range of topics including materiality, the inhuman, and the agency of objects. By way of color, Cohen guides readers through a reflection of an essentially complex and disordered universe and demonstrates the spectrum as an unfinishable totality, always in excess of what a human perceives. Contributors Stacy Alaimo, U of Texas at Arlington Levi R. Bryant, Collin College Lowell Duckert, West Virginia U Graham Harman, American U in Cairo Bernd Herzogenrath, Goethe U of Frankfurt Serenella Iovino, U of Turin, Italy Eileen A. Joy Robert McRuer, George Washington U Tobias Menely, Miami U Steve Mentz, St. Johns U, New York City Timothy Morton, Rice U Vin Nardizzi, U of British Columbia Serpil Oppermann, Hacettepe U, Ankara Margaret Ronda, Rutgers U Will Stockton, Clemson U Allan Stoekl, Penn State U Ben Woodard Julian Yates, U of Delaware. **About the Author Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is professor of English and director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute at George Washington University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Medieval Identity Machines Of Giants Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages and Monster Theory Reading Culture, all from Minnesota.
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The twisted, but fascinating, mind of a serial killer is revealed with terrifying consequences in this astonishing and shocking exploration. with 20 b&w photos.Amazon.com ReviewJason Moss was a very strange boy an overachiever, always looking for some challenge, some new way to excel. In his studies, in sports, and, for some reason that he can never explain comprehensibly, seducing serial killers into telling him their secrets. His first project was John Wayne Gacy. Moss sent carefully crafted letters to Gacy in which he portrayed himself as a young, naive, insecure gay man who could be easily manipulated. Gacy was suspicious and put Moss through harrowing emotional tests before surrendering his trust, but Moss came out ahead. Gacy fell head over heels for Moss, replying with graphic and disturbing letters instructing him to commit depraved acts for Gacys vicarious thrills. Moss led him on, convincing Gacy that he was doing these things, but somehow this victory wasnt sufficient. So he extended his efforts to include other jailed killers. Although he experienced some success, amassing a disturbing collection of documents--including detailed sexual prose from Jeffrey Dahmer, disjointed ramblings from Charles Manson, and awkward, violent illustrations from Night Stalker Richard Ramirez--his closest relationship was always with Gacy, whom he eventually visited in prison, where even the unflappable Moss learned fear. The Last Victim challenges the reader to understand not only the twisted psychology of serial killers who kill for pleasure but why and how a young, seemingly bright and healthy young man such as Jason Moss could create such elaborate schemes to ingratiate himself with them. Moss puts his own safety and well-being on the line time and time again, simply to gain these mens trust, to coerce from them some understanding of what makes them do the things they do. And the book gives readers the opportunity to gain this insight without providing serial killers their home addresses--not a bad deal, overall. --Lisa HigginsFrom Publishers WeeklyThe subtitle is a slight bit of misdirection Moss offers us a journey into his own mind, into the mind of someone obsessed with the minds of serial killers. As a UNLV freshman, he corresponded with John Wayne Gacy, then on Death Row. He also accepted collect calls from Gacy, who attempted to talk him into committing incest with his younger brother. Enthralled by his proximity to sociopathology, Moss expanded his list of psycho pen pals to include Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez (aka the Night Stalker) and Jeffrey Dahmer. His impulse was to get inside the criminal mind. To do so, he sometimes found it necessary to tailor the truth about himself to fit what he felt the killers wanted to hear he claimed to be the grand priest of a cult in his letters to Ramirez. Despite suffering nightmares triggered by his grisly correspondents, Moss, after contacting the FBI agent who handled Gacy, flew to Illinois to spend his spring break alone in a locked, unmonitored room with a psychopath whod raped, tortured, and strangled many boys just like me. Moss succeeds in contrasting his family life and his prisoner contacts, but the insight he offers into the internal logic of the serial killing mind is limited. Moreover, some readers will wonder about his own motivations, especially when he holds forth about the market value of Dahmers autograph and otherwise participates in the strange, ghoulish culture of serial killer celebrity. Psychotherapist Kottler, one of Mosss UNLV instructors, contributes both a prologue and an afterword. Eight pages of drawings and photos. Major adpromo. 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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