The Matter with Time
Monika Szuba confronts deep time through the examination of decay, between what is real and what is synthetic. In this, she writes that the long durée is not long enough to conceive the anthropogenic change unfolding around us.
Category: Essays
Penguins, Puffins, and the Science of Seabird Scat
Erin Hassett speaks with Dr. Gemma Clucas, a researcher at Cornell University who analyzes the poop of penguins and other seabirds to reveal deteriorating ocean health and changing fish population ecology. Dr. Clucas and fellow researchers travel to remote locations to collect the poop from common terns, penguins, puffins, and other seabirds.
Fish Farming in the Digital Cloud
Patrick Brodie investigates the complex political ecology of energy, data, and fish in Ireland’s peat bog aquaculture.
Avian Drones Take Flight at the Expense of Real Birds
Amy Gaeta argues that drones designed to mimic birds raise the alarm not just about unwanted surveillance but the appropriation of more-than-human life.
What Community Cats Can Teach Us about Multispecies Care
Community cats lead diverse multispecies lives outside of human care, but they should still be valued. Kuhelika Ghosh explores how human stewards can engage in forms of “non-kin” care to help them thrive in their outdoor environments.
The Art of Climate Protest
Jayme Collins explains how a new generation of climate activists draw from histories of protest art to reveal the ties between the art world and fossil fuel capitalism.
Love versus Legality in Indian Crane Conservation
Authors Dipti Arora & Astha Chaudhary investigate how politics, media, and affective relationships complexly shape human-crane encounters in India—with positive and negative consequences for both species.
Más allá de los monocultivos del género, los horizontes trans
La lógica de las plantaciones le dan forma a nuestra vida. El género es hoy un monocultivo, pero Max D. López Toledano y Topaz Zega sugieren que cultivar policultivos del género nos ofrece nuevas maneras de florecer.
Is the Outdoor Recreation Boom Too Good to Be True?
The outdoor recreation economy (ORE) is where land, labor, and leisure collide. Mara MacDonell explores the complexities and complications behind the apparent rise of ORE, including housing insecurity, economic inequality, and environmental degradation.
The City Through More-Than-Human Eyes
Indian artist Jagannath Panda is known for his play imagination of urban life. Sreyashi Ray explores how it uses rich textiles and figures to highlight the intersection of human and other-than-human issues that resonate with viewers from all around the world.
