Tag: Anthropocene
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Who Gets to Have Ecoanxiety?
in EssaysAnthropocene anxiety about uncertain climate futures is on the rise. For the Indigenous Haida Nation, ecoanxiety arrived 150 years ago.
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How Extraction Fuels the Anthropocenes: A Conversation with Gabrielle Hecht
in PodcastsHow do the minerals in your phone place you within global flows of extraction? Gabrielle Hecht discusses uranium mining in Gabon, sea rise in the Marshall Islands, and the geopolitics of an African Anthropocene.
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Plantation Legacies
in EssaysThe Anthropocene gives a name to human-caused environmental change. The Plantationocene puts colonialism, capitalism, and enduring racial hierarchies at the center of the conversation and asks what past and future modes of resistance might emerge.
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Our Waters, Our Selves: A Conversation with Astrida Neimanis
in Podcasts“We can’t contain water.” Feminist philosopher Astrida Neimanis discusses the environmental inequalities and queer rhythms of the elusive fluid.
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Weathering This World with Comics
in ChecklistsComics and graphic novels help us picture new worlds and imagine how to save our own. Four writers recommend their favorites.
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Why All Fiction Should Be Climate Fiction: A Conversation with Lauren Groff
in PodcastsHow does the celebrated author of the new story collection “Florida” write books in a poisoned, warming world? “By being constantly, constantly angry. All day long.”
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Why We Need Experimental Poetry in the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Lynn Keller
in PodcastsA new generation of experimental poets responds to the growing awareness of human impacts on the planet with work that challenges traditional nature poetry and poetic form.
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A History of the Anthropocene in Objects
In this book teaser, objects like monkey wrenches and pesticide pumps help narrate a fragmentary history of the Anthropocene.
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In Annihilation, the Revolution Will Not Be Human
in ReviewsA science fiction novel offers a genre-bending perspective that helps us think about wildness, purity, and invasion in new and strange ways.
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Erratic Monuments to a Melting World
As glaciers melt, they leave behind abandoned rocks and other erratics. This photo essay of the Alaskan wilderness explores how glacial erratics are time travelers, treasure troves, reliquaries, and rubble.