Seeds Planting Art By Sara Michieletto Is it possible to imagine a society in which we humans cooperate following the plants’ modalities for thriving in life, in a logic of sharing competences and inspirations, in a Read more…
Nature, Indigenous Rights, and Industry: On the Relocation of Indonesia’s Capital to East Borneo By Fany Hakim In January 2022, I was assigned to host the Thursday Online Forum (Forum Kamisan Daring) event held by Read more…
The Impossibility of Consent and Other Problems on Mauna Kea By Greg Johnson This post pertains to the Thirty Meter Telescope project on Mauna Kea (Hawai`i), which the author has written about on this forum Read more…
On Environmental Grief By Kocku von Stuckrad Last week, yet another devastating report about the ecological state of the planet was published: WWF and Zoological Society of London’s biennial Living Planet Report. It confirms (again) Read more…
The New Arms Race and the Approaching Climate Havoc: A Tipping Point for Humanity By Fabian Scheidler A few days after the Russian attack on Ukraine, a new report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Read more…
Reaching for the Stars: Notes from the Magic-Detection Project By Teya Brooks Pribac Driving from Sydney, Australia, to the desert town of Broken Hill, a thousand kilometers to the west, whether by the southern or Read more…
The Role of Indigenous Women in Ecological Activism: Deforestation in North Sumatra By Bibi Suprianto The deforestation of indigenous peoples’ land in North Sumatra is a long, ongoing problem. One such community is the indigenous Read more…
Globalization and Buddhism in Indonesia: Building Myanmar’s Shwedagon Pagoda By Yulianti According to the 2021 data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are approximately 2,033,608 Indonesians practicing Buddhism which is equal to 0.74% of Read more…
Decolonizing for the Planetary Community: Many Worlds, One Planet By Whitney A. Bauman Sylvia Wynter has argued, I think successfully, that the idea of the human and subsequently what the “Humanities” are, grew out of Read more…
Aborting Rights By Catherine Keller In my May 2022 blog for Counterpoint, I was reflecting on how collective crises like the war in Ukraine, a global pandemic, and (often racialized) threats to democracy inescapably distract Read more…
