From Situated Knowledge to Intensional Field Theory

This essay suggests that the status of the field in the hu-manistic sciences has altered in the decades of scholarship responsive to anthropogenic climate change, and that the methodological tools available to tend to this shift involve a reconsideration of environmental deixis and intensional reading and writing. While much of the analytic impulse forwarding attention to deixis and intensionality has come from anthropology, I suggest that cultural analysis has always been a discipline uniquely sensitive to the iterative and situated relation between reader, object, and field, and is thus a discipline well-suited to experimental forms of collaborative and creative fieldwork outside of the classroom.