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“Buying Time,” and Other Charismatic Temporalities of Climate Change

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Mark Carey explores the themes of out of time, accelerating time, and buying time in current climate change discourse, arguing that they flatten other social constructions of time and perpetuate empty "scientific" solutions.

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Navigating Eco-Grief with Ancestral Grieving Practices

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Eco-grief can feel isolating, but Guevara Han and Rae Jing Han draw on Filipino and Chinese ancestral practices to develop collective grieving practices.

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Something in the Water: A Podcast on PFAS in Wisconsin

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000

The Public Trust podcast, co-produced by Bonnie Willison and Richelle Wilson, investigates PFAS contamination in Wisconsin.

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Memorializing Wildfire at the Playground

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 13:15:00 +0000

Jessica George interrogates the politics of seemingly apolitical wildfire memorials and examines how climate change-related art challenge the timelessness of conventional monuments.

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Climate Crisis Meets Flatland’s Multidimensional Imaginaries

Thu, 30 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Edwin A. Abbott nineteenth-century novel Flatland is often described as a science (or mathematical) fiction. Valeria Zambianchi argues that it can be read as climate fiction as it shows that the possibilities to combat climate crisis are already present in our world.

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The Deep Roots of Plant Time

Thu, 23 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Yota Batsaki explores the ways Kapwani Kiwanga's sculpture "On Growth" converges the past and the present, challenging human temporalities through exploration of plant time. The sculpture is on display at the High Line in New York City.

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What Time is the Nomad?

Thu, 16 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Natasha Maru engages with the pastoralist temporalities as experienced by Rabari nomads in Kachchh, India. This narrative ethnographic account highlights the changing rhythms of pastoral lifestyles with shifts in the political economy of the region.

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Oxen Time, Multispecies Moments, and a Furrowed Field

Thu, 09 May 2024 12:59:00 +0000

In this entry to the Troubling Time special series, Caroline Abbott explores a medieval furrow near her home in Cambridge and finds its connections to time, memory, and multispecies entanglements.

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How Indigenous Artist George Morrison Resists Ecological and Cultural Extraction

Thu, 02 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Indigenous modernist George Morrison's works were once considered "not Indian enough" but were later curated as minoritized art. Matt Hooley explores how and why the radical meanings of Morrison's art are obscured or misunderstood by cultural institutions.

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Grave Decoration and Deep Time: A Poem

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Inspired by embalming practices and artificial flowers in graveyards, Madeleine Bavley pens a poem exploring how we might trouble time with synthetic substances.

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