Ecoanxiety in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein signals our ability to create art in reaction to environmental disaster in increasingly unstable planetary futures.
This essay brings previously underexplored paths of political ecology, environmental history, and even biosemiotics and plant neurophysiology in Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees (1957) to light.
Joseph Adeniran Adedeji shows how the cultural meaning of Yoruba heritage sites signify hope for a harmonious coexistence between society and the nonhuman world.
Joana Freitas reveals the reasons, troubles, and charm of writing about sand and how poetry can be more effective than prose to describe dunes.
Full text of Multispecies Ethnography and Artful Methods, edited by Andrea Petitt, Anke Tonnaer, Véronique Servais,
Catrien Notermans, and Natasha Fijn.
Novelist Catherine Bush walks the streets of Venice, seeking art that engages with Rachel Carson at the Biennale Arte 2024.
Processing the horrid February 2025 “Killing [of] a Baboon” by a group of schoolchildren in Delmas, South Africa, Sandra Swart looks back at history and examines the role of superstition and the occult in the ongoing violence against these primates.
A poem on Portuguese crowberries by Margarida Vale de Gato.
A reflection on the littoral as destination and pathway by Raquel Ferreira, Ana Luiza Souza, and Miguel Albuquerque.
Excerpt from Insectopolis: A Natural History by Peter Kuper.
