Re-storying Metaphors as Decolonization By Daniel Bryan In their seminal article, “Decolonization is not a metaphor,” Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang speak to many of us who read this blog, calling for activist scholars, Read more…
Mucho, Mucho, Mucho Amor, For the Planet By Whitney A. Bauman I have been thinking about planetary erotics lately. By that I mean the love of bodies, internal and external to us. As David Abrams Read more…
This is Not a World of One: Our Separability-Amid-Situatedness By Marcia Pally What’s the disconnect? I’m sitting in Washington Square Park in N.Y., which I treat as my “backyard” as its curving paths and grand Read more…
Green Spiritual Technologies: Putting the Anthropocene Era to Rest (One Day a Week) By Jonathan Schorsch The shutdown forced on much of the world by the Coronavirus pandemic has focused attention even more urgently on Read more…
Immediacy and the End of Modernity’s Ends By Whitney A. Bauman Several recent blog posts have touched on the meanings of end times and apocalypses. One in particular hoped for an apocalypse, in the sense Read more…
How the Soul Became Consciousness By Kocku von Stuckrad The soul is a strange thing. Depending on which expert you trust, you might regard the soul as the immaterial essence of our existence, as a Read more…
On (Anti-)Racism and World-Dwelling By A. Marie Houser “[A] force of opacity is at work … considerate of all the threatened and delicious things joining one another (without conjoining, that is, without merging).” — Èdouard Read more…
The World’s Gone Missing By John J. Thatamanil The world’s gone missing. We’ve lost it altogether. But how? It can’t be misplaced, can it, like car keys or a cell phone? Strangely, that is precisely Read more…
Pandemic Pandemonium By Catherine Keller Photo: Le Pandemonium, by John Martin, 1841, Le Louvre Pandemic and pandemonium—was it mere alliteration insistently linking those two words in my head? They seem disconnected: the pandemic has Read more…
The Great Pandemic Novel Will Not Be About the Pandemic By Alissa Jones Nelson If someone asked you to list the necessary tools for global transformation, fiction might not be high on your list. But Read more…
