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Volatile Bodies, Volatile Earth: Towards an Ethic of Vulnerability
This article outlines a “microontology” of social life on Earth. This ontology attends to the majority of relations on our planet: those amongst microbes.
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"Metabolic Labor: Broiler Chickens and the Exploitation of Vitality"
Les Beldo proposes thinking about nonhuman contributions to production, including those taking place at the microbiological level, as labor, and offers an ethnographic description of the lives of broiler chickens.
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"Biological Processes as Writerly?: An Ecological Critique of DNA-based Poetry""
John Ryan examines biopoetry experiments that encoded poetry into DNA, asking if biopoetry and the encipherment process are conceptual and methodological experimentations, or if they reflect ecological consciousness and ethical imperative for life.
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Pandemics in Context
What can we learn from human responses to epidemics and pandemics in history? What insights can ecological and environmental humanities perspectives provide? This new and growing collection of annotated links to open-access media (analyses, primary sources, and digital resources) helps put pandemics in context.
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“Gaia versus the Anthropocene: Untimely Thoughts on the Current Eco-Catastrophe.”
This article suggests an alternative understanding of global warming and gives a thermodynamic and historical account of ecological destruction.
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Treating the “Undesirable”: Venereal Patients in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1918
This paper explores how conceptions of Canada as a naturally healthy environment proved false when the ill-health of civilians was revealed during the First World War.