In this Special Commentary Section titled “Replies to An Ecomodernist Manifesto,” edited by Eileen Crist and Thom Van Dooren, Bronislaw Szerszynski examines ecomodernism through the metaphor of “conscious uncoupling,” suggested in an essay by Habib Sadeghi and Sherry Sami.
In this Special Commentary Section titled “Replies to An Ecomodernist Manifesto,” edited by Eileen Crist and Thom Van Dooren, Eileen Crist considers the Manifesto’s point as view as one of humanism and freedom.
In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Vinciane Despret and Michel Meuret discuss how humans and animals are making their own contributions to a new cosmoecology, creating cosmoecological connections and contributing to what Ghassan Hage has called alter-politics.
In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Eben Kirksey, Dehlia Hannah, Charlie Lotterman, and Lisa Jean Moore conduct a performative experiment which blurs the boundaries between performance art, science, and ethnography. They conduct an outmoded pregnancy test with live Xenopus frogs to probe the contours of the gap between the biochemistry of being pregnant and the experience of recognizing oneself as pregnant.
In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Jamie Lorimer addresses the growing interest in restoring components of the microbiome. His article explores some of the implications of these developments for multispecies studies through a focus on helminth therapy—the selective reintroduction of parasitic worms as “gut buddies” to tackle autoimmune disease.
Alessandro Antonello and Mark Carey examine how the practices involved in drilling, analyzing, discussing, and using ice cores for both science and broader climate or environmental policies and cultures take part in constituting the temporalities of the global environment.
Katarzyna Olga Beilin and Sainath Suryanarayanan discuss the intertwined nature of movements of resistance by humans and plants struggling against genetically engineered soy monocultures in Argentina, which they provocatively conceptualize as interspecies resistance.
In this introduction to the special issue on Multispecies Studies, Thom van Dooren, Eben Kirksey, and Ursula Münster provide an overview of the emerging field of multispecies studies. Unsettling given notions of species, the article explores a broad terrain of possible modes of classifying, categorizing, and paying attention to the diverse ways of life that constitute worlds.
In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Hugo Reinert places multispecies studies in conversation with the geological turn by examining the place of a particular sacrifice stone in the ambit of a coastal mining development in northern Norway.
In this special commentary section titled “Replies to An Ecomodernist Manifesto,” edited by Eileen Crist and Thom Van Dooren, Clive Hamilton examines Erle Ellis’ ‘good Anthropocene,’ an unlikely juxtaposition which has now been amplified into the idea of the “great Anthropocene” and set out in An Ecomodernist Manifesto.
