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 moments works well enough that the phrase has successfully become a cliché, there are nevertheless Read more
Entanglement and Relationality By Whitney A. Bauman At a recent one-day symposium in Berlin on “The Body, Religion and Planetary Imagination in a Time of Environmental Crisis,” I was asked what I meant when I used the word “entanglement” and whether it was different from “relationality.” I’ve been thinking about Read more
The Im/Possibility of Global Solidarity By Catherine Keller Recently I found myself part of a conversation about the question: “Can Human Solidarity Globalize?” At first, political philosopher Richard Falk’s question sounds straightforward. But as one attempts to frame an answer, it takes on the hint of a Zen koan. An Read more
Ten Theses on Academia, Society, and the Planetary Future: A Counterpoint Manifesto by Whitney A. Bauman & Kocku von Stuckrad [For a German version of this manifesto, please click here.] 1. The so-called “Anthropocene” is the result of several thousand years of human thought-regimes that emphasize human domination and exceptionalism. Read more