Multimedia | interviews and talks
“Science, Society, Signs”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Harald Lesch.
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Multimedia | journal article
“Organisms, Life Relations, and Evolution: Inter-Dependencies after Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid”
This article reconsiders the relevance of Peter Kropotkin’s notion of mutual aid in evolution, which holds that cooperation is a more decisive factor than competition both among human and nonhuman animals.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with Ailton Krenak, author of Life Is Not Useful
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Ailton Krenak is interviewed on his recent book, Life Is Not Useful.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Anne Frank’s Tree: Nature’s Confrontation with Technology, Domination, and the Holocaust
In this book, environmental philosopher Eric Katz explores technology’s role in dominating both nature and humanity.
Multimedia | journal article
“The Place of the Moon”
Explore the Moon, the world, and the self in a lyrical essay with author Christopher Cokinos.
Multimedia | journal article
“Environmental History’s Usable Past: On Reviving the Scholarship of Synthesis”
A reflection on the historical approach to synthesis as a part of the toolbox of environmental history, with a focus on Lewis Mumford.
Perspectives Article
Multidisciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, Indisciplinarity, and Transdisciplinarity: Similarities and Differences
In this essay, Basarab Nicolescu explores diverse concepts and perspectives for addressing real-world problems.
Multimedia | journal article
“Staying Open: Shaping Environmental History in Sweden”
A reflection on how environmental history emerged in Sweden.
Multimedia | film profile
“Green Anarchy, Primitivism, and the Critique of Technology”
Is technology neutral, or is it the architect of our alienation? In this March 2005 lecture, anarcho-primitivist philosopher John Zerzan argued that civilization itself—defined by domestication, division of labor, and industrial technology—is the root cause of modernity’s ecological and psychological dysfunctions.
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Miyaoi Yasuo’s Perspective on Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Intersecting Humans and Animals, Shared Emotions and Ethics
Miyaoi Yasuo’s 1858 collection of tales, Kidan zasshi, challenges assumed human–animal boundaries, portraying shared ethics, reincarnation, and emotional connections by blending folklore and insights drawn from Edo-period experience.