Rhizomatic Poetics for Our Plant Companions
How do we represent the complexity of plant companionship in a language marred by dualism? Jerald Lim uses twin cinema poetry.
Tagged: Ideas of Nature
Troubling Dualisms with the God in the Aquarium
God, pet, and research subject, axolotls transgress Western dualisms. Alex Ventimilla explores what these creatures tell us about science, companionship, and life in the Anthropocene.
Play Nature in These Six (More) Board Games
Nate Carlin is back to review six (more) nature-themed board games: the worlds they construct and the ecological stories they tell.
Carp as Villains and Victims
Teri Harman considers resilience, fishy companionship, and the culpability of “invasive” carp in Utah Lake. Are carp villains or victims?
Thinking With Animal Companions: A Keynote
In this series keynote, professor emerita and historian Harriet Ritvo sets the stage for further investigation of “companion species.” She introduces the varied threads of animal companionship—from influence and impact to proximal, favored reciprocity.
The Strange Love of Cuckoos and Currawongs
Kate Judith shares a creative and speculative story through the vertiginous voices of the cuckoo and currawong, which underscore the tension between parasitism and care. The currawong’s caregiving is marked by both sacrifice and survival, while the cuckoo’s actions highlight a demolishing invasive behavior. This form reflects the complex, often painful exchanges that define interspecies interactions.
Unruly Sediments
Jac Common & Katy Lewis Hood trace marine aggregates dredging in UK coastal waters across multiple scales, arguing that this extractive industry needs to be situated in colonial and capitalist ocean histories and presents.
2024 Year in Review
As we welcome in another new year, Edge Effects editors reflect on ten years of posting and recommend their favorite essays and podcasts from 2024.
六款环境主题桌游
生态主题桌游架 游或是充满自然之美、富于艺术性，或是寓教于乐，引发对于气候变化、水污染、食物主权等议题的探讨。这里介绍并分析了六款环境主题桌游，希望可以引领你进入一个崭新的桌游世界。
Crip Intimacy and Aquifer Entanglements: a Conversation with Sunaura Taylor
Kate Phelps speaks with Sunaura Taylor on her book Disabled Ecologies. They discuss the contamination of the Tucson aquifer as an origin for understanding the mutual injury of humans and the environment.
