Humility and Hubris: A Review of Luc Jacquet’s “Ice and the Sky”
Even with the impacts of the Anthropocene, it would be hubristic not to realize that ice and sky will far outlast anything so puny as humanity.
Tagged: Anthropocene
Expressing Extinction: A Conversation with Anna Lehner
During this period of rapid political change, glass and Morse code provide mediums for reflection on the environment and extinction.
Turning Toward
A writer’s poignant reflections on care and healing. What might happen if we all turned toward, instead of away?
Review: Adam Trexler’s Anthropocene Fictions
A new book surveys 150 novels about climate change and makes the case for the virtues of cli-fi.
Talking Transformation in Beijing
A conference in China brings graduate students from around the world together to discuss environmental transformation.
Environmental Complacency and the Rise of Distraction; or, How I Learned to Embrace Worrying and Love Movies
How do species extinctions past and present affect our daily lives? What can we do to connect to environmental change?
On Care in Dark Times
How Emily Dickinson might tell the story of the Anthropocene.
Edgy Stuff: March 2016 Recommendations
March 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
Working Concepts: A Conversation with Sarah Besky
A conversation about labor: labor on tea plantations, the labor of language, and the ways in which the Anthropocene invites labor-focused inquiry.
Vocabularies for Technology, Nature, and the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Scott Kirsch
A conversation with geographer Scott Kirsch about what we mean when we talk about technology, and how we can understand the relationship between language and environmental and historical change.
