During the Industrial Revolution not only did the emission of greenhouse gases by burning fossil fuels start to increase exponentially, but so too did the movement of rock and sediment to get at th…| Earth-logs
My first encounter with Christa Jeitner’s work Zakopane Tree (Zakopanischer Baum) was a black and white photograph of an outdoor scene in nature. It shows a hanging textile work in the center. Attached to almost leafless branches, the triangular fabric body hangs in the air while its ends rest on a field floor of stones and grass. Apart from a few tall, vaguely recognizable trees in the background, the upper part of the photograph is almost white, so that the dark branches and the light-col...| ARTMargins Online
This special issue spanning ARTMargins Online and ARTMargins Print Journal derives from the ERC/UKRI supported project on the Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA) that foregrounds the contribution of environmental art history and research-driven contemporary ecocritical art to the interdisciplinary inquiry and epistemic endeavor of the Socialist Anthropocene.(The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA) project is led by Maja Fowkes at UCL Institute of Advanced Studies; se...| ARTMargins Online
We were driving home from North Wales, and it is a long way to East Anglia from there. So we were looking for a break in the journey somewhere: a place to rest overnight before A14-ing onwards to N…| East of Elveden
Six important books on slavery, capitalist diseases, climate action, scientists resisting, economic planning, and technofossils. Source| Climate & Capitalism
In 2015, I was back in India’s capital city, Delhi after two years of fieldwork in villages in rural parts of the country. On my return, the city had changed. There was something different in the atmosphere, which was leading to far-reaching, unexpected effects. For instance, during my morning commutes as I turned on the radio to one of Delhi’s most popular radio stations the radio jockey blared every hour or so, ‘Hawa-laat’! The Hindi word Hawalaat translates as a prison. If the word...| Platypus
Slag heap debris on the English coast has apparently been fusing into a new kind of sedimentary rock. A team of geologists studying the beach recently “found a series of outcrops made from an unfam…| BLDGBLOG
Slag heap debris on the English coast has apparently been fusing into a new kind of sedimentary rock. A team of geologists studying the beach recently “found a series of outcrops made from an unfam…| BLDGBLOG
The Anthropocene and the commentaries over the last year Over the last year, several commentaries were published in AGU journals, including one this month, over the debate on whether the Anthropocene should be considered an official epoch. The Anthropocene is an unofficial geologic time period, like the Holocene and Pleistocene, characterized by human activity having […]| AGU Newsroom
The sudden and uninvited intrusion of Gaia in our world is something rather strange, and yet consistent with the closure of the metaphysical tradition. The call of the outside takes place at the th…| Infrapolitical Reflections
‘Nuff said| ConservationBytes.com
Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Christian Reepmeyer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut – German Archaeological Institute, and Theodora Moutsiou, University of Cyprus Imagine growing up beside the eastern Mediterranean Sea 14,000 years ago. You’re an accomplished sailor of the small watercraft you and your fellow villagers make, and you live off both the sea and the […]| ConservationBytes.com
Human overpopulation is often depicted in the media in one of two ways: as either a catastrophic disaster or an overly-exaggerated concern. Yet the data understood by scientists and researchers is clear. So what is the actual state of our overshoot, and, despite our growing numbers, are we already seeing the signs that the sixth […]| ConservationBytes.com
In July 2022, I first reviewed the group exhibition ‘those eyes – these eyes – they fade’, curated by Anne Immelé at Valletta Contemporary, Malta. In recent times, the exhibition has resurfaced and…| c4 journal
This entry considers memory in the context of critical posthumanism, which might be perceived as the philosophical antidote to the more familiar transhumanist tendency that extends the humanist legacy by privileging the (white, masculine, heterosexual, Western) human subject as a universal category to be augmented, enhanced or transformed by means of various technologies. In this […]| Critical Posthumanism Network
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“Tears of the Kingdom” lets you play through the planetary archive. In so doing, it suggests the pleasures of thinking at planetary scale.| Public Books
Uncover the fascinating analyses of Peter Sloterdijk and Bruno Latour on the Anthropocene and the interconnectedness of nature and culture.| The Miskatonian
© www.viewsoftheworld.net Mining may have been one contributing factors to why Australia as one of the few advanced economies did not go into recession following the global financial crisis 10 years ago. While mining is a profitable business in Australia, once the … Continue reading → The post The Holey Land: Abandoned Mines in Queensland / Australia was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook...| Views of the World
The somber truth is that the vast bulk of nature’s staggering abundance has already disappeared. We live in a world characterized primarily by the relative silence and emptiness of its natural spaces. Underlying this devastation is the ideology of human supremacy—claiming intrinsic superiority over nonhuman forms of life. But is human supremacy innate to humanity, … Continue reading The Ideology of Human Supremacy| Patterns of Meaning
Agribusiness assaults on tropical forests are driving the emergence of new diseases and epidemics…| Climate & Capitalism
Covid-19 was the least unexpected pandemic in history. Why were governments not prepared?| Climate & Capitalism
Relentless evolution creates ‘resilient, dangerous foes’ in the Anthropocene…| Climate & Capitalism
In our time, pandemics will occur more often, spread more rapidly, and kill more people…| Climate & Capitalism
Sections An alien evolution Capital’s companions The pace and direction of change The climatic shock of the Younger Dryas seems to have arisen from the freak spillage of a huge glacial lake into the North… More| Stepping Stones
Fog walking on light feet across Abbott's Lagoon, Point Reyes | The Gleewoman's Notes
Everything is connected, and everything is changing By Kate Marvel on December 30, 2019A state of emergency was declared on November 11, 2019 and residents in the Sydney area were warned of “…| The Spiral Turns
