Network of Bones: Conjuring Key West and the Florida Keys

In Network of Bones: Conjuring Key West and the Florida Keys, Sean Morey promises 'weird shit' in his networked/layered exploration of Key West, and he delivers. In this fascinating and complex account of place, conservation, the environment, choral (or coral) drifts, and memoir intersect in order to reveal the 'secrets' of place. Network of Bones will, no doubt, become a major text for the study of place because of how it breaks down anticipated categories and expectations. As someone who also grew up in South Florida, I discovered a whole world of ideas and moments previously invisible to me. Network of Bones teaches us how to make place visible in ways location does not."" - Jeff Rice author of Florida ""Sean Morey is the Ernest Hemingway of choragraphy. His experiment demonstrates a leap out of scientific metaphysics, itself a cause of the General Accident known as the Anthropocene, into the electrate apparatus of digital civilization. Using flash reason learned from poetics, he takes implicit instruction from the name of his hometown, Key West. 'West' as choral word conjugates a German verb, Heidegger's Wesen, shifting ontology from being to event: the Key is to Dwell in the particularity of Cayo Hueso as paradigm. What crucial role must the humanities disciplines play in the present emergency? An answer is outlined not with ideas (universals) but events (essential happenings)-local, unique, specific to Sean Morey's experience: his childhood apprenticeship fishing in the mangals becomes a networked allegory with which to catch in imagination a response to the coming climate catastrophe."" - Gregory L. Ulmer author of Konsult: Theopraxesis