In this post, we are happy to feature some work by Maya Weeks, a multimedia artist and independent scholar interested in a range of related topics like marine toxic dumping, oceanic geopolitics, global capitalism, climate[…]
Author: Jessi Lehman
Ahmed’s “Phenomenology of the vanguard”: thoughts for environmental politics?
A recent blog post by Sara Ahmed, part of a forthcoming book chapter, raises some provocations relevant to the discussions around vanguardism that emerged in response to Arun Saldanha’s “Some Principles of Geocommunism“, but also[…]
Malariotherapy, monkey blood, and other interspecies entanglements
I was talking with an entomologist recently about new interspecies entanglements in the Anthropocene (party talk of grad students). Specifically, we were talking about his research on genetically engineered insects that can fight or be[…]
The Broken Ocean
This story has been picked up by various news sources and is circulating somewhat widely, but I think it deserves to be posted here too. This version is especially haunting for the sense of dread[…]
Dispatch from Williston, ND: oilfield temporalities
In June, I spent two weeks in North Dakota’s oil patch, interviewing people for a radio documentary on the lives of oil field workers and generally trying to figure out what is going on[…]
Antipode Intervention Symposium: Explosive Geographies
The Antipode Foundation recently published an intervention symposium in response to the recent explosive events in Boston, MA and West, TX. The symposium, which features an introduction and essay by GeoCritique contributor Patrick Bigger, draws[…]