Dylan Couch traces the complex connections between Aldo Leopold’s conservation land ethic, worsening wildfire risk, and archival precarity that threatens not only living and physical things, but collective memory.
Ann Xiaoxu Pei explores the whale as a historical symbol of extractive capitalism through sensory remediation in Deke Weaver & Jennifer Allen’s performance Cetacean.
Mark Carey explores the themes of out of time, accelerating time, and buying time in current climate change discourse, arguing that they flatten other social constructions of time and perpetuate empty “scientific” solutions.
Eco-grief can feel isolating, but Guevara Han and Rae Jing Han draw on Filipino and Chinese ancestral practices to develop collective grieving practices.
The Public Trust podcast, co-produced by Bonnie Willison and Richelle Wilson, investigates PFAS contamination in Wisconsin.
Jessica George interrogates the politics of seemingly apolitical wildfire memorials and examines how climate change-related art challenge the timelessness of conventional monuments.
Edwin A. Abbott nineteenth-century novel Flatland is often described as a science (or mathematical) fiction. Valeria Zambianchi argues that it can be read as climate fiction as it shows that the possibilities to combat climate crisis are already present in our world.
Yota Batsaki explores the ways Kapwani Kiwanga’s sculpture “On Growth” converges the past and the present, challenging human temporalities through exploration of plant time. The sculpture is on display at the High Line in New York City.
Natasha Maru engages with the pastoralist temporalities as experienced by Rabari nomads in Kachchh, India. This narrative ethnographic account highlights the changing rhythms of pastoral lifestyles with shifts in the political economy of the region.
In this entry to the Troubling Time special series, Caroline Abbott explores a medieval furrow near her home in Cambridge and finds its connections to time, memory, and multispecies entanglements.