This article brings together feminist technoscience and more-than-human theory on care with Lacanian psychoanalytic theories of anxiety and desire.
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Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Miles Powell.
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Péter Makai.
On Lord Howe Island, writer Cameron Muir has a run-in with a nearly extinct species: the woodhen. In the 1970s, scientists counted just 15 birds. Now the number is around 300, yet he calls this an encounter with a ghost species and contemplates how the fate of the lone bird he meets overlaps with the fate of humans.
This article analyzes the role of soil in the making of authoritarian regimes and illustrates twentieth-century practices and discourses related to fertility across the globe.
In this article, historian Kate Brown considers the connections between plants, biospheres, and the politics of breathing. “What can the history of controlled environments tell us,” she asks, “about how we understand the planet today?”
In this article, historian Kate Brown considers the connections between plants, biospheres, and the politics of breathing. “What can the history of controlled environments tell us,” she asks, “about how we understand the planet today?”
This profile features the preface and afterword from Environment, Power, and Justice: Southern African Histories.
This article argues for the term “uncanny water” as a conceptual tool for reading contemporary oceanic fictions.
Full text of the book Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones.