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Sea Lions and Seeing the Future

Sea Lions and Seeing the Future By Anna Mercedes It might have been the repetition that got me, but I think it was the sea lions. The repetition came in the form of all the Read more…

3 months ago May 12, 2021

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Anything Goes… What Trumpism and the Covid-19 Pandemic Can Teach Us About Climate Crisis

Anything Goes… What Trumpism and the Covid-19 Pandemic Can Teach Us About Climate Crisis By Oliver Krüger These days, we Europeans are quick to diagnose a post-factual age in light of recent events in the Read more…

4 months ago April 14, 2021

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Haunted Ecology and the Denials of Trumpism

Haunted Ecology and the Denials of Trumpism By A. Marie Houser “I would not be the giver of a gift that would prove fatal to you.” —Ovid, Metamorphoses, trans. Charles Martin Lake Superior, early November, Read more…

9 months ago November 11, 2020

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Counterpoint Turns Two—Looking Back and Looking Forward

Counterpoint Turns Two—Looking Back and Looking Forward By Whitney A. Bauman & Kocku von Stuckrad Exactly two years ago, on 25 August 2018, we launched Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge with an event in Berlin that addressed Read more…

11 months ago August 25, 2020

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This is Not a World of One: Our Separability-Amid-Situatedness

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…

1 year ago July 14, 2020

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Pandemic Pandemonium

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…

1 year ago June 3, 2020

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The Great Pandemic Novel Will Not Be About the Pandemic

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…

1 year ago May 27, 2020

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Mantra: These are Trauma Days

Mantra: These are Trauma Days By Anna Mercedes More than two months into working and parenting from home during the coronavirus pandemic, I am grateful to the teachers who had shown me, before the new Read more…

1 year ago May 20, 2020

Events

In the Midst of a Global Pandemic: A Conversation about Dependency, Interconnectedness, and Planetarity

In the Midst of a Global Pandemic: A Conversation about Dependency, Interconnectedness, and Planetarity 15 May 2020 Dorothea Green Lecture Series, Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs The current Covid crisis, among other Read more…

1 year ago May 18, 2020

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COVID-19 and Environmental Racism in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley”

COVID-19 and Environmental Racism in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” By Justine M. Bakker The first time I saw Highway Gothic, a 2017 installation by artists Ellen Gallagher and Edgar Cleijne, I was struck by the use Read more…

1 year ago May 12, 2020