Incredibly excited that the Introduction to my new book Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control is now available on the @DukePress website! Please take a read if you’d like!
dukeupress.edu/climatic-medi…
Book announcement: In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround is now out!!! 4 years in the making, co-edited by @gem_neves and me, this OA volume is full of chapters that will make you rethink the meaning of convenience. Please read & circulate!
networkcultures.org/blog/pub…
Very thrilled to be co-hosting this event with Weixian, featuring so many brilliant speakers working around the intersections of Environmental Media, Art, and Asia! It’s all online, and I hope some of you can join!
[update] Please join us on Oct 25-26 on Zoom! We are delighted to bring together an inspiring group of interdisciplinary scholars and artists to discuss the layered cultural and geopolitical history of the Asia Pacific. Full program and register via QR code/link in the poster!
oceanic friends working in environmental storytelling, this is open for application until 19 july to anyone from Australia, FSM, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, RMI, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu. abc.net.au/abc-international…
Second, a translation of Yuriko Furuhata's (@underground259) "Of Dragons and Geoengineering: Rethinking Elemental Media": mediaenviron.org/article/879…. We hope these allow many new audiences to access the groundbreaking work in M E!
So grateful to all the folks that made the Strawscene happen, but most of all to Will Straw. A celebration of Will’s brilliant & diverse body of work & scenes, of his generosity as a scholar & mentor & teacher to so many of us. Thank you @wstraw!! To many more scenes ahead!!
Islands, islanders, ancestors, birds, fish, rising seas, coral bleaching, deep sea prospecting, cargo transport, tourists, over fishing, military bases, nuclear waste, and “the great garbage patch” with rubbish from all the continents
China just released a new moon atlas, which is by far the most detailed ever made and took more than 100 researchers over a decade to compile
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
A statement on the right to protest and the need to protect the physical security of all people on @mcgillu campus/Une déclaration sur le droit de manifester et la nécessité de protéger la sécurité physique de toutes les personnes sur le campus de @mcgillu
Good news: injunction that not only would have dismantled the @mcgillu encampment, but prevented protest within 100m of any building gets rejected:
Campement à McGill : la Cour supérieure rejette l’injonction via @RadioCanadaInfoici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle…?
Shocking footage shows several officers at Washington University St. Louis beating a professor, slamming him, and dragging his limp body.
SIUE history professor Steve Tamari is reportedly hospitalized with broken ribs and a broken hand.
One doctor told him he's lucky to be alive.
One of the largest humanitarian aid warehouse in Rafah was bombed yesterday. Burn all food donations made through airdrop. Israel is using starvation as weapon of War in Gaza. This is a war crime under international humanitarian law.