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…
Celebrating Four Years of Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge By Whitney A. Bauman and Kocku von Stuckrad If we want to address the major challenges of the 21st century—first and foremost climate disasters, human and other-than-human interdependencies 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 Read more…
Hospitality in an Era of Pandemics, War, and Climate Change By Whitney A. Bauman The western Christian Easter season has become increasingly hard for me over the years. This April marks the first anniversary of Read more…
Planetary Goodness, Beauty, and Truth By Whitney A. Bauman In many ways the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were marked by a slow slide in western modern thought from transcendent ideals to immanent, relational realities. The Read more…
The False Gods of Individual Freedom and Nature By Whitney A. Bauman From anti-immigration in Europe to anti-vaxxers in the US and elsewhere, the strange phenomenon of so-called “horseshoe theory politics” continues to rear its Read more…
What Are the Time-Scapes of Our Thinking? By Whitney A. Bauman Timescape: 1) A perspective over a period (particularly a long period) of time. 2) A multidimensional view of time, especially one in which time Read more…
Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances A Discussion of Catherine Keller’s New Book Please join Counterpoint for an online discussion of Catherine Keller’s new book, Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances Read more…
Tis that Season, Again: Gifts, Hospitality and Giving Thanks By Whitney A. Bauman If you are like me, the thought of the holidays brings both joy and terror: the joy of being around those you Read more…
“Feral” Mappings: Entanglements, Multiplicity, Thinking with the Planet By Whitney A. Bauman Perhaps most readers know and assent to the idea that “the map is not the territory.” But, do we actually live as if Read more…
