Feeling trapped in an altogether human view of the world? These eight short films prompt viewers to, for a moment, abandon the familiar and instead examine issues like time and scale through surprising non-human perspectives.
Every winter millions of Americans gather around their televisions to watch a fireplace. What is it about a fire that we love so much? And what is it like to live through a Wisconsin winter heated by fire?
What can James Franco and a fossilized camera tell us about geology, labor, and objectivity?
The Edge Effects Editorial Board looks back on 2014.
Jennifer Colten’s photographs of wasteland environments challenge some of our deepest cultural values about nature and landscape.
December recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
At what scale should we document DC’s changing built environment? What current conditions make this documentation so very essential? A reflection on the joys, difficulties, and motivations for doing fieldwork in the unfamiliar parts of one’s home city.
In 2012, Hurricane Sandy made devastating landfall at the Rockaway Peninsula in New York City, offering forebodings of still more powerful storms to come.
Domestic and wild, companions and consumed, treasured and discarded, animals occupy a complex place in our academic theories and in our day-to-day lives. Six reasons why animals help us both think and live more ethically and sustainably on this planet.
Dan Barber’s “The Third Plate” resists the ethical pitfalls of farm-to-table dining, instead proposing an ethics of flavor to orient agriculture and its cuisine. What are the implications of a land and sea ethic guided by flavor?
