Beautiful Sludge as Queer Ecology
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Quinn Luthy found refuge in the Newtown Creek, a superfind site in New York City. Its toxic sludge and dandelion wilds harbor queer ecology and nonbinary resistance.
Legados de las plantaciones
El Antropoceno da nombre al cambio ambiental provocado por la acción humana. El Plantacionoceno sitúa el colonialismo, el capitalismo y las jerarquÃas raciales persistentes en el centro de la conversación y se pregunta qué modos de resistencia, pasados y futuros, podrÃan surgir.
Mapping the Social Lives of Rattlesnakes
For many people, rattlesnakes are scary at worst, mysterious at best. Amber Aumiller maps rattlesnakes’ social lives and where they intersect with humans’ in Utah’s San Rafael Swell. These desert kin, she shows, are much more complex than most people imagine.
Why Translate?
In 2025, we began translating our archives into non-English languages. Here’s why.
Lukas Marxt Lets the Toxins Speak
Juntao Yang examines how Lukas Marxt renders the specter of toxicity visible and knowable in his experimental film, Among The Palms The Bomb (2024). The film, they argue, is a study of the technology of witnessing and a call for deep attunement to the land.
Cosmo-Visions of Truth After Violence: A Conversation with Abby Reyes and Carolina Sarmiento
Nicolás Felipe Rueda speaks with Abby Reyes and Carolina Sarmiento about Indigenous cosmologies, environmental justice, and Abby’s new memoir, Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice.
Landscapes of Displacement and the Politics of Dead Pets
In 1977, the pets of a Los Altos, California cemetery were exhumed and relocated to Napa. Zak Breckenridge argues Errol Morris’s Gates of Heaven documentary on the event is a prehistory of today’s housing and land crisis.
Faculty Favorites: Critical Interventions in the Plant Humanities
Ready to get plant-y? In anticipation of our forthcoming special series, Academic faculty recommend books with botanical imaginations to transform yours.
Guerreros de Drones: El Arte de la Vigilancia y la Resistencia en Standing Rock
Como parte del movimiento de los Protectores del Agua contra el oleoducto Dakota Access, los Guerreros de Drones utilizan la fotografÃa con drones como una forma de protesta. Una exposición curada por Adrienne Keene y Gregory Hitch destaca su trabajo.
Camera Trap Poetics
After the Woolsey Fire devastated the Santa Monica Mountains in California, researchers placed trail cameras to observe the return of wildlife. Chase A. Niesner composed and performed “Signs of Life” from the images captured. In this exhibit, he reflects on the essence of being and the passage of time captured in this great return.