anthropocene
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Stitching the Sea Together: A Conversation with Kathryn Smith
Kathryn Smith discusses her new poetry collection, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CEPHALOPOD.
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The Privilege of Anxiety: Mark O’Connell’s Notes from an Apocalypse
What does our “future-dread,” as O’Connell puts it, show us about our own lives in the present?
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Nothing Ever Disappears: Pigs by Johanna Stoberock
Simplicity obfuscates itself by the very act of being observed.
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Album of the Week: Peter Oren’s Anthropocene
“Should we all write protest songs? Only if that’s what’s on your mind. I can’t help but write political songs.”
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Watching the World End: A History of The Weather Channel
[A]ll this sensationalism has made The Weather Channel, inadvertently and ever increasingly, the essential television viewing experience of the Anthropocene.
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Say the Name
And what weapons does Trump have in his arsenal, beyond the name he has been able to hide malignant words and actions behind?
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On Queer Love in the Anthropocene
Four syllables, ever so lightly punctuated by the softest consonants, announcing a tragic, apocalyptic shift in global time.
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Weekly Geekery
Your new chatbot therapist recommends volunteering. Womp womp: those productivity hacks are making you less productive. A quick-and-dirty primer to the “Anthropocene.”
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I Hear the Place That Can’t Be Named
It is remembering and loving anyway—not forgetting—that binds us even if the recollections are absurd, undignified, cruel, or humiliating.
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The Age of Humanity
Suzanne Jacobs writes for Grist on the next epoch of life on earth, the Anthropocene. Epochs are used to classify distinct times in geologic history, and a new paper claims to have identified enough proof of human civilization’s effect on…