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A Watersheds Moment
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…
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…
Thinking Past the Anthropocene By Whitney A. Bauman As Sylvia Wynter, Aph Ko, and many other decolonial theorists argue (not to mention post-humanists, indigenous scholars, queer theorists, and other critical theorists of race, gender, sex, Read more…
On COP26 and the Need for Parareligion By Justine M. Bakker Earlier this November, thousands of people—country leaders and activists, climate experts and NGOs—traveled to Glasgow for COP26, the 26th annual UN global Climate Summit. Read more…
Calling All Solarpunks! Symmetrical Myths and Rituals for Survival By Morgan Tomalty We are living in a moment where progress is no longer forward, but on we trudge down that doomed path. The “end of Read more…
Apocalypse Anymore? By Catherine Keller No doubt the Trump presidency incited my Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances. Finishing final revisions only weeks after the 2020 U.S. election, I was relieved as I Read more…
Seeds of Connection, Seeds of Change: Botanical Folktales for Ecological and Relational Storytelling By Anna Perdibon “Plants prepare for the winter through fruits and seeds, and through discarding what they don’t need. The clearing-out begins,” 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…
Offshore: Descending into the Blue Humanities By Justine M. Bakker Purely coincidently, I started writing this blog on “World Octopus Day,” which occurs every year on October 8—a date that fits the eight-armed creature so Read more…
Progress for Whom and What? By Whitney A. Bauman Steven Pinker’s recent book Enlightenment Now argues that despite all recent, post-modern claims to the contrary, we can still be certain that reason and science are Read more…
Major Themes and Insights for the Work of the New Center On 25 August 2018, Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge was officially launched with a stimulating program of speakers and discussions in Berlin. The general theme being Read more…