A Case for Ignorance By Annika Kraft Ignorance leads a shadowy existence in the modern cultural and scientific history of Europe and the West, which is built on opposites: culture–nature, science–religion, ratio–emotion, knowledge–ignorance. Ignorance tends Read more…
Cooking up Change: A Hundred Years of World Animal Day By Teya Brooks Pribac Nonhuman animals have always preoccupied the human mind, some animal species—and some human minds—more than others. Communities throughout history have opted Read more…
A Watersheds Moment By Gary Slater The phrase “watershed moment” is used so commonly that it’s easy to forget how, if at all, actual watersheds come into it. If the metaphorical fit of watersheds with Read more…
Doggerland Entanglements By Kocku von Stuckrad Imagine that the land between Great Britain, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands was not covered by water. Instead, it consisted of a landscape rich in plant, animal, and fungi Read more…
Inside Out / Outside In: Returning our Bodies to the Commons By Whitney A. Bauman Often times the “work” of overcoming what Bruno Latour called “the great divide” between humans and the rest of the Read more…
Bridging the Human and More-than-human World A Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge Research Colloquium Living root bridges are among the biggest tourist attractions in the Indian state of Meghalaya. The indigenous Khasi and Jaintia communities build these Read more…
Plants, Art, and Spirituality By Sara Michieletto In front of my window, as I write, I see a man hanging by ropes from a tree. The tree is an American oak tree that I observe Read more…
The Arduous Journey of Staying Home By Jan Millsapps Relatively few humans consider themselves spacefarers. And yet we live on a spaceship spinning daily on its axis at about a thousand mph (1600 kph), slinging Read more…
“Don’t Look Up” in 2025: Predictive Precisions and Ongoing Omissions By Christiana Zenner Yule: “I don’t know, I’m starting to think that all this ‘end of the world’ stuff is bullshit.” Kate Dibiasky: “It’s not. Read more…
Fragile Toxic Masculine Energy By Lina Aschenbrenner About a month ago, Mark Zuckerberg sparked extensive critical discussion in multiple media spaces, when he told podcaster Joe Rogan that “corporate culture had swung to being that Read more…
