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Verdant Optimism: On How Capitalism Will Never Save the World
Earth systems continue their collapse and the shadow of recognition spreads that humans (northern capitalist moderns anyway) are to blame. Still, a weird optimi... More
Surprise
What is it to be taken by surprise? It is to be startled and maybe shaken, to be enchanted and even made breathless. To be taken by surprise is to be accosted b... More
Tuil
My name is Tuil. I am no monster. But I am becoming monstrous. I cannot say exactly when it began, but I remember the ache. That ache became agony as my skin be... More
Melt as Sensory Labor
As the ice of the world melts, heat is made visible. Rapidly rising temperatures draw attention to Earth’s cryosphere as it is increasingly measured, its retr... More
Failure
Fail. Fall. Frail. Flail. Flounder. Fizzle. Flop.What does it mean to fail together?In ethnographic collaboration there are lots of places to flail, fall, and f... More
Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen
The idea of an Anthropocene has spread with astonishing speed, dislodging familiar terms like nature and environment from their customary preeminence as signs o... More
Timely
Some of us remember Watchmen. This was the graphic novel of deconstructed superheroes, nonlinear plot timing, and, perhaps most famously, the bloody smiley face... More
Introduction: Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen
This is a work in progress, and we hope that you might also think of pitching in. We write in the midst of a dramatic revaluation of the epoch at hand, as a sub... More
Queer Futures
This series brings together a cohort of anthropologists to reflect on queer anthropology as a historically situated intellectual formation and research communit... More
Porous Pleasures
My queered anthropological life began on the streets of San Francisco and from there traveled south to Nicaragua, where I studied the postrevolutionary struggle... More