• (The book focuses on places that have been severely impacted by human actions and abandoned – not necessarily abandoned … More
Category: Books
Underland, Robert Macfarlane
13: ‘An aversion to the underland is buried in language. In many of the metaphors we live by, height is … More
The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson
Notes from The Sea Around Us (1989 edition) by Rachel Carson (found through the work of Tania Kovats): First page … More
For Space, Doreen Massey
In stories of globalisation/capitalism we are told we are on an inevitable path – a constant growth and development towards … More
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None, Kathryn Yusoff
Ruttier – ‘an oral poem that functioned as a map for sailors’ (xi) ‘The proximity of black and brown bodies … More
Rona Lee, That Oceanic Feeling
‘Yet, this is primarily a superficial – literally, shallow – relationship: after all, the passing of a 100,000 tonne ship … More
Geology Without Geologists, Douglas Kahn
‘Theorists, academics, and artists who could have cared less in the past are now raising the rubble and unleashing a … More
Staying with the Trouble, Donna Haraway
Introduction ‘Chthonic ones are beings of the earth, both ancient and up-to-the minute. I imagine chthonic ones as replete with … More
Object-Oriented Ontology, Graham Harman
Introduction ‘philosophy has great cognitive value even though it is not a form of knowledge. And in a time like … More
Hyperobjects, Timothy Morton
He defines object-oriented ontology as ‘an emerging philosophical movement committed to a unique form of realism and nonanthropocentric thinking’ (2) … More
Anna Harris 