Stones (and) Touching

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Published: Dec 30, 2024
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aporia rationality democracy environmental policy deconstruction Derrida colonialism climate change biodiversity philosophy identity technics touch friendship generosity synthesis journal journal of comparative literary studies national and kapodistrian university of athens
Anders E. Johansson
Mid Sweden University
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Anders E. Johansson, Mid Sweden University

Anders E. Johansson is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Mid Sweden University, with a focus on contemporary poetry and its relations to areas such as gender, ecology, and science, relations made invisible by the efficient divisions and blinding habits of our time. (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences [HSV], Mid Sweden University—ORCID: 0000-0002-5591-9810)

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