Marianna Dudley, Carson Fellow from October 2011 until March 2012, talks about the unusual experiences of researching militarized landscapes.

Eric Rutkow shows that trees were essential to the early years of the republic and indivisible from the country’s rise as both an empire and a civilization.

The philosopher Timothy Morton is using the Oedipal logic to explain the human shift from a creature inferior to nature to a geophysical force on a planetary scale and to think about possible solutions for an accordingly upcoming bitter end.

Tom Lee on the dynamism and complexity of the relationship that exists between differing kinds of knowledge.