In this article, historian Kate Brown considers the connections between plants, biospheres, and the politics of breathing. “What can the history of controlled environments tell us,” she asks, “about how we understand the planet today?”
Excerpt from Woodland Imagery in Northern Art, c. 1500–1800 by Leopoldine van Hogendorp Prosperetti.
ClimateCultures was launched in 2017 and is a growing network for creative responses to the Anthropocene.
Excerpt from Taming Fruit: How Orchards Have Transformed the Land, Offered Sanctuary, and Inspired Creativity by Bernd Brunner.
Excerpt from Kate Rigby’s 2020 book Reclaiming Romanticism.
The graphic essay Toxic Inheritance by anthropologist Amelia Fiske in collaboration with graphic designer Jonas Fischer gives intimate insights into the effects oil extraction in the Ecuadorean rainforest. This essay is featured in the virtual exhibition Toxic Relationships: Uncovering the Worlds of Hazardous Waste.
Modern societies’ hazardous by-products cast a dark shadow over the planet. A threat to humans and the environment alike, hazardous waste comes in many guises: discarded batteries, asbestos, giant ships, or tailings from mining operations. While these objects might not seem dangerous at first sight, they have characteristics and components that make them potentially deadly. This virtual exhibition gives you an insight into the obscure world of hazardous waste, its questionable trade across the globe, and the people successfully fighting for safe and just waste management. The Hazardous Travels research team takes you on a journey both into our research and to the edges of our societies that many prefer not to see.
Maximilian Feichtner, Jonas Stuck, Ayushi Dhawan, Christina Lennartz, and Simone M. Müller
Excerpt from Mark R. Stoll’s Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism.
Profile for Feral Atlas, an interactive project curated by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Anna L. Tsing is interviewed on her new project, Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene.
