Tag: Ideas of Nature

  • El Asunto del Tiempo

    El Asunto del Tiempo

    By

    Monika Szuba

    Monika Szuba enfrenta el tiempo profundo a través del examen de la descomposición, entre lo que es real y lo que es sintético. En este contexto, escribe que la longue durée no es lo suficientemente larga para concebir el cambio antropogénico que se despliega a nuestro alrededor.

  • Rhizomatic Poetics for Our Plant Companions

    Rhizomatic Poetics for Our Plant Companions

    By

    Jerald Lim

    How do we represent the complexity of plant companionship in a language marred by dualism? Jerald Lim uses twin cinema poetry.

  • Troubling Dualisms with the God in the Aquarium

    Troubling Dualisms with the God in the Aquarium

    By

    Alex Ventimilla

    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

    Play Nature in These Six (More) Board Games

    By

    Nate Carlin

    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

    Carp as Villains and Victims

    By

    Teri Harman

    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

    Thinking With Animal Companions: A Keynote

    By

    Harriet Ritvo

    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

    The Strange Love of Cuckoos and Currawongs

    By

    Kate Judith

    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…

  • Unruly Sediments

    Unruly Sediments

    By

    Jac Common

    and

    Katy Lewis Hood

    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

    2024 Year in Review

    By

    The Editorial Board

    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

    六款环境主题桌游

    By

    Nate Carlin

    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。