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Geological Humanism

By Jerome Whitington

September 22, 2020

Antihumanism has defined much of anthropology and critical theory since the 1960s, taking such forms as a rejection of biological universals and any notion of a... More

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Environmental Data, Guerrilla Archiving, and the Trump Transition

By Jerome Whitington

January 17, 2017

Many of Donald Trump’s disinformation tactics go in two related directions: grandiose promises to rally his base, and trolling or decoy statements meant to inci... More

Theorizing the Contemporary

Carbon

By Jerome Whitington

April 6, 2016

During the 1950s, Dave Keeling developed a set of techniques for systematically measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide. The problem was not simple. How does one c... More