Description: Vincent Bruyere offers an invitation to look at the present we live in through a fresh lens: the difference between storage and burial in the age of sustainability science. He reflects on the nature and significance of perishability in a culture of preparedness and survival.
Brief description: Vincent Bruyere (PhD, French Studies, Warwick) is Assistant Professor of French Studies, cross-listed with the Studies in Sexualities Program and the Disability Studies Initiative, and Co-Director of Graduate Studies, French and Comparative Literature at Emory University. He is the author of La différence Francophone: De Jean Léry à Patrick Chamoiseau (Rennes, 2012) and has also published essays in Mosaic, Symplokè, Diacritics, and Esprit Créateur.
Review Quotes: Perishability Fatigue is unquestionably one of the most original works I have encountered in the broader field of environmental humanities: a hallucinatory journey through a cabinet of (grotesque) curiosities, a hoarding of images and ideas with jolting leaps between centuries within a single paragraph. Bruyere also touches on issues central to medical humanities and disability studies, and offers a uniquely erudite perspective--historical, multidisciplinary, and generous.--Karen Pinkus, Cornell University