CAPTURE is a book that reveals how the drive to contain and record disappearing animals was a central feature and organizing pursuit of the nineteenth-century US cultural canon. In a conversation that ranges from references to Muybridge and Audubon, Poe and Hawthorne, Whitman and Thoreau, environmental humanities and biopolitics, presentation and representation, capture and captivity, (with a cameo from Sylvester Graham of the Graham cracker), Antoine Traisnel (author of CAPTURE) joins Michelle Neely (author of AGAINST SUSTAINABILITY) in a lively and rigorous discussion. Traisnel is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Neely is associate professor of English at Connecticut College. This conversation was recorded in March 2021. 

BOOKS DISCUSSED: 
Capture: http://z.umn.edu/capturebook 
Against Sustainability: https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823288205/against-sustainability/ 

REFERENCES: 
Eadweard Muybridge 
James Fenimore Cooper 
Edgar Allan Poe 
Nathaniel Hawthorne 
Gerald Vizenor 
Jacques Derrida, The Animal That Therefore I Am 
Nicole Shukin 
Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows 
John James Audubon 
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project 
Herman Melville, Moby Dick 
Jeremy Bentham 
Michel Foucault and biopolitics 
Walt Whitman 
Lucille Clifton 
Henry David Thoreau 
Emily Dickinson 
Sylvester Graham (of the Graham cracker) 
Seed vault / Doomsday Vault