Table of Contents
Invocation: “FIFTY is Nifty”
Introduction: Breathe
“Survive”
Dune(s)
Breathing Without a Head: Plant Respirations in John Gerrard’s Smoke Trees
Homeostasis and Extinction: Ted Chiang’s “Exhalation”
Breathing
The Lily of the Valley, or Love as Breathing in the Scent
Learning to Breathe | FiveFragments Against Racism
Breathing: Proustian Therapy
At the Beginning, There Was the Mask
Two Narracts
Asphyxiations
Surfing the Sublime: Tim Winton’s Breath and Eco-Heroism
Spirometer, Whale, Slave: Breathing Emergencies, c. 1850
Comme Elle Respire: Memory of Breath, Breath of Memory
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A Breath of Fresh Air: Or, Why the Body is Not Embodied
Conspiring (Sympnea and Dyspnea)
“Everything is Breath”: Critical Plant Studies’ Metaphysics of Mixture
On Breath
Take My Breath Away
Overtones: A Collage
Coughin’/Coffin Air
Public Water
The Freedom to Breathe
Inspiration/Expiration (Completion)
On Sharing Breath
Breathing with Denise Levertov
Breathren
Haïti Can’t Breathe
Oppression
Respire, Con-spire
From Where Do We Draw Breath? Air’s Absence and Blackness
Be Strong, Breathe
The Air of Liberty: A Transatlantic Perspective
The Most Crucial Gesture for a Living Being
Asthma: Strangling the Caged Bird (Something Like a Prayer)
Math Anxiety: Making Room to Breathe
Fresh Air
On the Nose
The Problem with Breath
Pairing breaths: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmech’s Terminal Sud (2019)
Ancient Land Breathing
Breathing Emily Dickinson: Inspiration/Expiration
Breathing Together
Breathing with Mountains
Gasping for Breath: Democracy à bout de souffle?