Tag: Anthropocene
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Faculty Favorites: Encountering the Ecological Weird
in ChecklistsWeird times call for weird recommendations. Faculty from across the disciplines share books, films, and songs that explore the ecological weird—from the uncanny and unsettling to the disorienting and unexpected.
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Winter’s Muted Garden
What does a garden become in winter? Émilie Gervais explores winter’s sensory and narrative landscape through a community garden’s fence.
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Legados de las plantaciones
in EssaysEl Antropoceno da nombre al cambio ambiental provocado por la acción humana. El Plantacionoceno sitúa el colonialismo, el capitalismo y las jerarquías raciales persistentes en el centro de la conversación y se pregunta qué modos de resistencia, pasados y futuros, podrían surgir.
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Tracing Landslides by Motorcycle
in EssaysRiding the Western Ghats on motorcycle, Mohammed Labeeb reads the terrain with his body. His landslide research probes knowledge production, methodology, and proximity in a shifting terrain.
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Snapshots of the Anthropocene in Iran
in ExhibitsWhat does the Anthropocene look like? Angelica Modabber disentangles the complex layers of memory, ecological change, and identity in contemporary Iranian photography.
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My Strange Kinship with a Tick
in EssaysWhat messages are shared through a tick bite? Maxime Fecteau explores his experience with Lyme disease, revealing how an undesired relationship with ticks nonetheless has profound impact on his way of seeing ecological degradation, multispecies kinship, and the Anthropocene.
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Mourning Waste in the Anthropocene
in EssaysSophie Chao traces how Marind People of West Papua suffer the effects of monoculture toxicity while also mourning for the waste it produces.
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The Deep Roots of Plant Time
in EssaysYota 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.
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Swimming with Trash in the Caribbean
in EssaysThe Caribbean is known for its pristine beaches and tourist spots, but it has increasingly become a dumping ground for the world’s unmanaged garbage. Ysabel Muñoz Martínez charts how “wastescapes” are proliferating in the Anthropocene.
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Faculty Favorites: Books That Go Beyond the Classroom
in ChecklistsSix scholars from campuses across the country recommend new environmental books about the blue humanities, environmental justice, the histories of bikes and blockades, and more.