Living By Fire
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?
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The Future Relics of Daniel Arsham
What can James Franco and a fossilized camera tell us about geology, labor, and objectivity?
Edge Effects: 2014 In Review
The Edge Effects Editorial Board looks back on 2014.
Photographing Urban Margins: Jennifer Colten’s “Wasteland Ecology”
Jennifer Colten’s photographs of wasteland environments challenge some of our deepest cultural values about nature and landscape.
Edgy Stuff: December 2014 Recommendations
December recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
Documenting DC: Understanding a City, One Building at a Time
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.
Shored Up: The Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy at the Rockaway Peninsula
In 2012, Hurricane Sandy made devastating landfall at the Rockaway Peninsula in New York City, offering forebodings of still more powerful storms to come.
Six Reasons to Think and Live With Animals
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.
Review: “The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food”
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?
Doing Environmental Studies During Times of Racialized Violence
In the last few weeks, two grand juries declined to indict the police officers who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner. What can scholars in the environmental humanities and social sciences say about racialized state violence?
