Category: Reviews
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Lions and Tigers and Tabbies, Oh My! Two Reviews of La Berge’s Marx for Cats
in ReviewsLa Berge’s Marx for Cats tells the story of capitalism through cats. In these reviews, Magaryta Golovchenko and Marta Wolny discuss what felines add to the conversation.
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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.
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Who Gets to Be Alive? On Rivers and People
in ReviewsIn reviewing Robert Macfarlane’s forthcoming book IS A RIVER ALIVE?, Anna Christensen Spydell connects the colonial mistreatment and dehumanization of Indigenous and immigrant “Others” to the pollution and objectification of rivers around the world.
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Unearthing Buried History with REMOTE VIEWING & Land Art
in ReviewsKatherine Gregory explores how Cauleen Smith’s short film REMOTE VIEWING (2011) excavates buried histories of racial violence and challenges audiences to rethink who has the right to shape the land.
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The Art of Decomposition in “Cetacean” and “Rendered Obsolete”
in ReviewsAnn Xiaoxu Pei explores the whale as a historical symbol of extractive capitalism through sensory remediation in Deke Weaver & Jennifer Allen’s performance Cetacean.
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Imagining New Futures in West Papua’s Plantation Forestscape
in ReviewsJessica Richardson reviews Sophie Chao’s book IN THE SHADOW OF THE PALMS, with a focus on indigenous groups’ nuanced feelings and relations with plantation lifeworlds as well as their radical openness toward the future.
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What Would An Animal Revolution Look Like?
in ReviewsIn this review of Ron Broglio’s Animal Revolution, Taylin Nelson investigates how animals resist human structures and technologies and how Broglio’s book acts as a field guide for humans.
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Living With Plastic and Toxicity, Queerly
in ReviewsSvenja Engelmann-Kewitz reviews Heather Davis’s book Plastic Matter, which theorizes the queer potentials and complex legacies of plastic.
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Gender and Glacial Agency in The Ice Sings Back
in ReviewsMaria Tane reviews feminist geographer and glaciologist M Jackson’s debut novel, which reveals a profound connection between melting ice and missing women.
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Swamp Feelings
in ReviewsAnnie Proulx’s 2022 book Fen, Bog, and Swamp is a melancholy love letter to wetland ecosystems. But missing from this lament, Nino McQuown argues, are hopeful histories of resistance.