Visual artists are often solitary creatures, drawing their creative inspiration from the world around them – music, nature, relationships, politics
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When my friend emailed me a link to that New York Times piece about a growing crack in an Antarctic
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Making worlds is not limited to humans. (…) In fact, all organisms make ecological living places, altering earth, air, and
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This article was originally published on HowlRound, a knowledge commons by and for the theatre community, on April 17, 2016. In Finale,
Climate change does not feature prominently in the landscape that comprises literary fiction. When the subject does appear, it is far more likely to be in nonfiction work. Sadly, the writers who write science fiction, the genre to which climate change has been relegated, are not taken seriously by the literary world. They will for instance rarely be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Global literature has shown that mainstream writers regularly respond to war and national emergencies of all kinds, but somehow climate change has so far proved resistant to their interest. In the modern novel, it seems that subjects like climate change move to the background, while as what we experience in our everyday lives and relationships moves to the foreground. As Amitav Ghosh explains in his book The Great Derangement, the techniques that are identified with the contemporary novel exclude climate change, because its science and effects are difficult to grasp, and not something which we deal with
What makes people chase that utopian destination and what happens when they get there? Since 2013 I have been interested
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What could I do with my rage, despair, and disbelief after the calamitous US election? My mind raced as I
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How to visualize social sciences research and theoretical thinking In my doctoral research, I study how Arctic communities use and
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This article was originally published on HowlRound, a knowledge commons by and for the theatre community, on April 19, 2016. In 2014, the subject of ecological philosophy made its way from a bookshelf to my study table. Having been a student of environmental economics earlier, the various scientific, social, and eco-political debates were not new to me, but despite the urgency of the situation, I had never wanted to make theatre about this subject. It was eco-philosophy that made me wonder about addressing our ecological crisis in the theatre. My enquiry was framed by a simple question: “Why are we causing harm to the planet when we are absolutely certain that it is unfailingly counter-intuitive to rock the boat one is sailing in?” Of course there are some common answers to this question that include words such as development and short–sightedness, but I had never found these answers satisfactory since they suspiciously point more towards the symptoms than the real issue. They
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We really didn’t know what to expect. The last time I was in Washington, DC was for the Women’s March,
