Tagged: Ideas of Nature

A composite image of the earth at night

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Darkness is vanishing, and that’s a problem. Historian Kenneth Weisbrode and poet Heather H. Yeung explain how and why we seek out the dark.

yellow flowers

Uprooting a Renter’s Garden

Gardening while in graduate school and on the academic job market means preparing to uproot, leaving a renter’s garden and broken promises behind.

a row of pigeons sitting on a telephone wire photographed from below

Why Pigeons Can’t Be Pigeonholed

Consider the pigeon. Impossible to categorize as nature or culture, the space between these binaries is where they thrive.

The two covers of Slobodian and Selcer's books, one a painting of a brown window and the other overlapping circles

Managing the Globe after Empire

New books by Perrin Selcer and Quinn Slobodian show how ideas about the global environment and global economy took shape in response to the end of empire.

The Alchemy of Early Photography

Four contemporary photographers use historical techniques to bring attention to the transient, illusory, and disposable items and people in our world. From tintype to cyanotype, these processes combine chemical knowledge and artistic insight.