Review: Martin Blaser’s Missing Microbes
Martin Blaser worries that “missing microbes” may be responsible for a whole host of modern ailments.
The Close City: An Exhibit on Nature in New York
This photo series explores the tensions between permanence and transience in New York City’s urban landscapes.
The “Eyes” Don’t Always Have It: Eight Films to Change Your Perspective on the World
Feeling trapped in an altogether human view of the world? These eight short films prompt viewers to, for a moment, abandon the familiar and instead examine issues like time and scale through surprising non-human perspectives.
Living By Fire
Every winter millions of Americans gather around their televisions to watch a fireplace. What is it about a fire that we love so much? And what is it like to live through a Wisconsin winter heated by fire?
The Future Relics of Daniel Arsham
What can James Franco and a fossilized camera tell us about geology, labor, and objectivity?
Edge Effects: 2014 In Review
The Edge Effects Editorial Board looks back on 2014.
Photographing Urban Margins: Jennifer Colten’s “Wasteland Ecology”
Jennifer Colten’s photographs of wasteland environments challenge some of our deepest cultural values about nature and landscape.
Edgy Stuff: December 2014 Recommendations
December recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
Documenting DC: Understanding a City, One Building at a Time
At what scale should we document DC’s changing built environment? What current conditions make this documentation so very essential? A reflection on the joys, difficulties, and motivations for doing fieldwork in the unfamiliar parts of one’s home city.
Shored Up: The Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy at the Rockaway Peninsula
In 2012, Hurricane Sandy made devastating landfall at the Rockaway Peninsula in New York City, offering forebodings of still more powerful storms to come.