"Future"
This article for the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities section explores the way that humans have conceptualized the future, and how this conceptualization has shaped humanity’s interactions with nature.
This article for the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities section explores the way that humans have conceptualized the future, and how this conceptualization has shaped humanity’s interactions with nature.
Handley’s article for the Special Commentary section explores Pope Francis’s Laudato si’, questioning the postsecularity of the environmental humanities and the continued dismissal of spiritual and religious discourse in the context of establishing an environmental ethos.
Margret Grebowicz argues that James Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), in particular the time-lapse films of glaciers receding, presents a unique example of what Guy Debord calls the ”tautological” nature of spectacle, its capacity to serve as its own evidence at the same time as it becomes a mode of relation among people.
Elizabeth Callaway analyzes scientific literature on climate change, specifically from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to consider how scientific representations structure, articulate, and inform our experience of time.
In his article for the special “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities Section,” Mike Hulme goes beyond traditional, institutional definitions to view climate as an idea which mediates between the human experience of ephemeral weather and the cultural ways of living which are animated by this experience.
This area attracted an exodus of youthful creative urban dwellers resettling the land with aims of self-sufficiency and communal living.
Efforts to naturalize trout in German Southwest Africa capture German ambitions within its first and only settler colony.
In this commentary, Stefan Helmreich considers how Hokusai’s famous woodblock print, The Great Wave, has recently been leveraged into commentaries upon the Anthropocene, and how the image has been adapted to speak to the contemporary human-generated global oceanic crisis.
In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Cary Wolfe and Maria Whiteman discuss the changing notions of landscape and nature at work in the video installation Mountain Pine Beetle and explores some of the forces that eventuated in the devastated landscapes of the Rocky Mountain West brought on by the infestation of the mountain pine beetle beginning in the early 2000s—an infestation caused, in no small part, by what some scientists have called a perfect storm of circumstances created by global warming.
Alessandro Antonello and Mark Carey examine how the practices involved in drilling, analyzing, discussing, and using ice cores for both science and broader climate or environmental policies and cultures take part in constituting the temporalities of the global environment.