1. Do some research on D. Walcott and try to account for the different perspectives of the ocean (and sea-crossings) in Walcott's "The Sea is History" and Whitman's "Passage to India".
2. Again on Steve Mentz's effort to deterritorialize academic concepts - what answer can we give to his proposal of "horizons" (as sites of transitions and fusion) as metaphors for futurity that "span green pastures and blue seas"? (xvii - anthology p. 286)
(photo Edward Burtinsky, Oil Spin 13, Gulf of Mexico, 2010)