In this book, author and cultural historian Hsu. L. Hsuan investigates olfactory experience to offer new ways of relating, challenging the extractive logics of racial and colonial capitalism.
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Whale sharks gather each year at Ningaloo Reef, their seasonal appearances drawing intensive human attention, reminding us that the story of the ocean is also our own story.
This podcast discusses the work of the archaeologist Niède Guidon and the traces of the first humans in the Americas.
This podcast discusses linalool extraction from rosewood grown in the Amazon rainforest.
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.
Dive into a pivotal 1993 lecture by renowned Professor Bron Taylor as he unravels the complex tapestry of the American conservation movement. This insightful presentation offers a panoramic view, tracing the philosophical and spiritual roots that shaped environmental thought and action, particularly focusing on the rise of the deep ecology movement and what Taylor terms “pagan environmentalism.”
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.
An exploration of the apple-growing culture and landscape of the island of Jersey through one of its little-known dishes.
Jan David Hauck and Pooja Nayak discuss how changing environments change our language and morals.
A brief history of the universe from the big bang to the Anthropocene, as related by someone older and wiser than all of it. A fable for clever beasts. A bedtime story for a species.