Content Index

“Planetary Environing: The Biosphere and the Earth System”

A chapter from the book Environing Media (2022).

“Natural Histories for the Anthropocene: Koselleck’s Theories and the Possibility of a History of Lifetimes”

Jordheim, Helge. “Natural Histories for the Anthropocene: Koselleck’s Theories and the Possibility of a History of Lifetimes.” History & Theory 61, no. 3 (September 2022): 391–425.

No Mud, No Lotuses

In this episode from Outrage + Optimism, hosts Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson reflect on the last six months of life on this planet in the final episode of Season 5.

Interview with J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke, authors of The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945

In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, J. R. McNeill and Peter Egelke are interviewed on their book, The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945.

“Apocalypse When? Two Views from the End Times”

An essay on end times and the Anthropocene.

“How Tuna Shaped Oceanography”

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Carmel Finley.

“Feminist Environmental Humanities and a Thousand Tiny Anthropocenes”

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Cecilia Åsberg.

“Seeing Nature: An Environmental Humanities Field Guide to Visual Culture”

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Neil Maher.

“Journalism in the Anthropocene”

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Dominic Hinde.

The Life, Extinction, and Rebreeding of Quagga Zebras: Significance for Conservation

A book on the extinct quagga, a pony-sized zebra that inhabited southern Africa.

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