I’m happy to have contributed a new essay to the “No Future Lexicon” series commissioned over at Public Books, “a magazine of ideas, art, and scholarship,” with Matthe…| Ekostories by Isaac Yuen
On the first anniversary of Utter, Earth’s publication, I had the pleasure of chatting with writer and interviewer Constance Malloy over at The Burning Hearth. Here’s an excerpt from one of our many conversation threads: “…I think our present preoccupation should be one of defiant endurance. To hold fast. To defy the narratives imposed upon us, and insist on narratives of our own forging, ones where care and kinship and connection with the planet and with each other remain uncompromis...| Ekostories by Isaac Yuen
I’m excited to share this latest conversation I had with Carina Lyall and Rina Garcia Chua over at Becoming Nature, a podcast hosted by Lyall reflecting on “nature and the unfolding of …| Ekostories by Isaac Yuen
“Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words.” National Book Awards speech exce…| Ekostories by Isaac Yuen
Ferris Jabr’s Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life is a book that encapsulates ideas I have been working through over the years, both here on Ekostories and in other creative endeavours. I found myself intrigued by one of its main ambitions: To reframe life as more verb and less noun, more fluid in form and less rigid in definition, as a self-organizing, system-regulating force that has become part and parcel of this planet; for without life, Earth would be no different than so many ...| Ekostories by Isaac Yuen
