Arcadia
Facing Changes, Changing Targets: Sperm-Whale Hunting in Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil
This article investigates the origins of the exploitation of sperm whales off the Brazilian coast in the eighteenth century.
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Destination–Home | Oceans in Three Paradoxes
Chapter 3 of Helen Rozwadowski’s virtual exhibition, Oceans in Three Paradoxes: Knowing the Blue through the Humanities.
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Letter from Richard Kool to Sam and Cohen | Beyond Doom and Gloom
A chapter of the virtual exhibition “Beyond Doom and Gloom: An Exploration through Letters,” this letter presents a Jewish understanding of despair in relation to future adverse effects of climate change. The exhibition is curated by environmental educator Elin Kelsey.
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Letter from Eliza Encheva to Charles Eisenstein | Beyond Doom and Gloom
A chapter of the virtual exhibition “Beyond Doom and Gloom: An Exploration through Letters,” this letter discusses an alternative understanding of the crisis of Western societies. The exhibition is curated by environmental educator Elin Kelsey.
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Huāngyě—Chinese | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by Tina Tin, highlights different words that are used in Chinese to describe wilderness.
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Making the Origin of Water and the Cleanest Waters on the Planet Visible | From Hand Lenses to Telescopes
Fourth chapter of Ricardo Rozzi et al.’s virtual exhibition, From Hand Lenses to Telescopes: Exploring the Microcosm and Macrocosm in Chile’s Biocultural Laboratories.
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Mountains, Glaciers, and Climate | Human-Nature Relations in German Literature: A Curated Stroll
In this chapter of her virtual exhibition, “Human-Nature Relations in German Literature,” Sabine Wilke examines mountains and glacial environments in German-language literary descriptions. Whereas the German Romantic poets still highlighted mountainous nature as deeply ambiguous, Goethe’s Faust tried to understand mountainous nature in its materiality through scientific studies. Modernism focuses on the more often destructive results of human-nature entanglements. For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.
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Introduction: Making the Invisible Visible in the Natural Laboratories of Chile’s Extreme Zones | From Hand Lenses to Telescopes
The introduction to the virtual exhibition “From Hand Lenses to Telescopes: Exploring the Microcosm and Macrocosm in Chile’s Biocultural Laboratories.”