Chirping Machine
The human species has substantially altered the Earth. We are even able to artificially recreate nature, such as a machine that can imitate the movement and sound of birds.
The human species has substantially altered the Earth. We are even able to artificially recreate nature, such as a machine that can imitate the movement and sound of birds.
Andrew Whitehouse considers the semiotics of listening to birds in the Anthropocene by drawing on Kohn’s recent arguments on the semiotics of more-than-human relations and Ingold’s understanding of the world as a meshwork, and comparing the work of Bernie Krause with responses to the the Listening to Birds project.
Timothy Hodgetts’s article for the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities explores connectivity as a placeholder that seeks to capture multiple forms of multispecies mobility, using the eastern gray squirrel in English landscapes as an example.
Justine Parkin’s article for the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities explores the concept of fecundity and interspecies relations.
Rigby reimagines green cities from an interdisciplinary environmental humanities perspective to see how they can also be sites of more-than-human prosperity.
Coral scientists are dealing with an existential crisis and are divided between hope and despair in their approaches to coral conservation.
Looking at Leanne Allison and Jeremy Mendes’s interactive documentary Bear 71 (2012), Katey Castellano shows how the environmental humanities can be employed to rearticulate scientific data as innovative multispecies stories.
Jonathan Woolley borrows the folkloristic, East Anglia figure of Black Shuck, a devilish hound, and connects it to a narrative of the Anthropocene based on the notions of inescapable mortality, deep time, and responsibility.
In this introduction to a special issue on human-nature interactions through a multispecies lens, the authors focus on the notion of “multispecies assemblages” and their role in conservation theory and practice at the intersection between ecology, history, and society.
Contributing authors examine what happens when we cease to assume that only humans exert agency, by considering animals and vegetables as agents rather than mere objects.