ABSTRACT
Based on a surprising personal encounter with Hurricane Irene in Vermont in August 2011, this chapter uses Guattari’s concept of ecosophy to assemble an experimental narrative that attends to the refrains through which hurricanes achieve consistency, hold together evolving subjectivities, and resonate through the non-discursive spaces of environmental catastrophe. The chapter unfolds as a semi-poetic experiment using refrains and aims to produce an experience as much as an analysis, to create the world rather than simply account for it. These refrains provide a way to think through natural disasters not as static events but as abstract machines both altering the thresholds of subjectivity and continuing on as limitless agents of expression.
