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Role-Playing Queer Assemblages Amidst Capitalist Ruins

Nat Mesnard’s new game, Assemblage, allows players to build and role-play an imaginary multispecies universe. Even more interesting than the creatures themselves: the stunning meditation they elicit on extinction, grief, and collaborative, queer survival in the Anthropocene.

An aerial view of wind turbines at sunset over agricultural land. A road snakes across the landscape.

Wind Turbine Elegy

In this poem, Anya Kaplan-Harnett imagines centuries of social and ecological change from the perspective of a wind turbine towering over rural Illinois.

Squished Bugs and the Sticky Questions of Fieldwork

Our views of the multispecies world are smudged through windshield graveyards. Anissa Bejaoui peers through the stories squished bugs tell about the ethics of knowledge production and the praxis of conservation.

A shoreline with a statue of an bird, in flight and facing toward the water, on the land. The land has vibrant green grass in the foreground and rocks leading into a light blue ocean.

El Asunto del Tiempo

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.

A woman in profile with long dark hair gazes up toward the light

Poetic Encounters Across Borders

Poet Ann Fisher-Wirth collaborates with photographer Wilfried Raussert and a team of translators to interpret street art across the Americas. Together, they illustrate the interconnectedness of people and nature in urban environments.