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[Dr. Allegra Smith @argella]

Come teach with me, @purdue_english!

[Dr. Allegra Smith @argella]

Thanks so much to the folks who attended & asked generative questions at #CRCon18 #F1 today! If you couldn't make it, I've attached my talk (https://t.co/wzkRhtNcvz) & slides (https://t.co/iRE0t0pYEp) here so you can learn some stuff!

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Learning coming of age games with @mintburlap at @pritisha_prisha and @Sunkesharee’s #CRCON18 #e9 presentation

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The incredible @pritisha_prisha & @Sunkesharee in #CRCON18 #e9: performing a ceremonial Nepali tradition for the coming of age of young girls

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One of my favorite doggos is on campus today! Come see Shiloh at the Period Project bake sale from 11–3 in front of Wetherill Hall! 🐶🍪🍩 #Purdue

[Dr. Sweta Gyanu Baniya @Sunkesharee]

I get amazed by how rhetoric allows us to think about everything and anything in the world. What an amazing talk Dr. @salvo7
Thank you @RSA_Purdue for organizing this!

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Prescod-Weinstein's decolonizing science reading list, which offers some insights into indigenous epistemologies https://t.co/gjqz4Ln6Xr #PurdueRC

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The Anthropocene and the understanding of the environment solely serving human needs is tied to colonialism. Can the Cthulucene, instead, be in dialogue with indigenous understandings? #PurdueRC

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"Do you think it's possible for humanity to design spaces that can design and iterate beyond us?" @JGerdin1 asks. @salvo7 responds that there are waste processing technologies that return materials safely to the biome. #PurdueRC

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The Oatmeal (and the internet in general) is really good at turning otherwise maligned species into charismatic ones: see the mantis shrimp https://t.co/vjvnLYw6zJ & https://t.co/xuPyYWPjEc (@salvo7 #PurdueRC)

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Moral of this talk: if you are an advisee of @salvo7's, you will probably get attacked by birds

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"A weed is a plant we don't want there: that's an anthropic—a human-centered—judgment" (@salvo7 #PurdueRC)

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What are the ethics in evoking pathos when discussing charismatic species? @salvo7 describes that it's important to keep scale in mind. "One dead fish does not an ecological disaster make." #PurdueRC

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Iterative design (and its continual process of reassessment) can contribute to this idea of moving past the hopelessness of the Anthropocene: it's not hopeless, just dire! (@salvo7 #PurdueRC)

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"I believe that discourse protects the island and the birds, the seals, and the whales" (@salvo7 #PurdueRC)

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Another recommendation from @salvo7, this book that discusses how fungi break down human refuse in landfills to make food for the next generation: https://t.co/oEj5qpUzWd #PurdueRC

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Drawing on Donna Haraway and Sandra Harding, @salvo7 outlines a "new objectivity" where individuals don't "extract *a* truth" from an object, but rather "tendrils of discourse" from people and institutions shape and construct our reality (#PurdueRC)

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"Future anthropologists might be perplexed as to how this island was re-wilded, while the oceans were filled with plastic refuge... and humans ran amok over the planet" (@salvo7 #PurdueRC)

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What does it take to get citizens to accept limits on the use and abuse of land? (@salvo7 #PurdueRC)