"Violence": An Essay by Eraldo Souza dos Santos (Keywords: Politics; Structures; Domination; Racism)
"Violence cannot be understood only through the gesture of the blow, but equally through the systemic suffering that permeates our lives."
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Jana Bacevic
- 10 min
"Reality": An Essay by Jana Bacevic (Keywords: Truth; Anthropology; Bruno Latour; Climate Change)
Reality is not in people’s heads as much as it is created through the interaction of specific groups of people in specific times and places.
Robin Celikates
- 11 min
"Borders": An Essay by Robin Celikates (Keywords: Refugees; Nationalism; Pandemic; Critical Theory)
"A border is never just a border, a gate to be opened or closed at will."
Briana Toole
- 10 min
"Objectivity": An Essay by Briana Toole (Keywords: Epistemology; Methodology; Race; Power; Truth)
"If objectivity is little more than a shield to protect the interests of the powerful, then what does this mean for the pursuit of truth?"
Jessica Whyte
- 10 min
"Market": An Essay by Jessica Whyte (Keywords: Neoliberalism; Capitalism; Democracy; Freedom; Peace)
"What is a market if markets can over-ride the democratic political process and determine the priorities to which nations must conform?"
Yarran Hominh
- 11 min
"Unfreedom": An Essay by Yarran Hominh (Keywords: Agency; Liberation; Pragmatism; Non-Ideal Theory)
"Unfreedom is not just a matter of states of the world, but how the world affects and shapes how we think, feel, and act."
Simone M. Müller
- 8 min
"Toxicity": An Essay by Simone M. Müller (Keywords: Planet; Anthropocene; Injustice; Inequality)
"In the age of the toxic commons, not one of us, not even the environmentally privileged ones like me, remains unaffected by toxicants."
Thomas Nail
- 9 min
"Movement": An Essay by Thomas Nail (Keywords: Anthropocene; Ontology; Migration; Capitalism)
"We cannot adequately understand contemporary politics through the paradigm of static states and stationary citizens."
Michael Marder
- 10 min
"Connectedness": An Essay by Michael Marder (Keywords: Anthropocene; Metaphysics; Entanglement)
"Humanity is an errant species; perhaps this is why it is a planetary species, dreaming of becoming interplanetary."
Travis Holloway
- 8 min
"Weather": An Essay by Travis Holloway (Keywords: Anthropocene; Planet; Art; Politics; Narrative)
"The strange weather that we’ve been hearing about is now here, speaking in a new political forum that humans have yet to join seriously."
Jeff Sebo
- 8 min
"Animal": An Essay by Jeff Sebo (Keywords: Ethics; Anthropocene; Rights; Planet; Pandemic)
"The idea that all humans should have rights is good, but the idea that only humans should have rights is bad."
Pierre Charbonnier
- 11 min
"Politics": An Essay by Pierre Charbonnier (Keywords: Anthropocene; Capitalism; Ecology; Science)
"The incommensurability between 'authentic' political thought and ecological concerns can no longer be defended."
Romy Opperman
- 9 min
"Racism": An Essay by Romy Opperman (Keywords: Anthropocene; Ethics; Planet; Inequality; Feminism)
"It is no coincidence that sacrifice zones fall on Indigenous land and on places inhabited by majority Black populations."
Erin R. Pineda
- 10 min
"Disobedience": An Essay by Erin R. Pineda (Keywords: Activism; Civil Disobedience; Climate Change)
"In a world on fire, is there time for disobedience?"
Nancy Tuana
- 9 min
"Sensibilities": An Essay by Nancy Tuana (Keywords: Affect; Anthropocentrism; Planet; Relationality)
"Despite the dominance of a sensibility that hyperseparates humans and nature, it is far from being universal."
Simona Capisani
- 12 min
"Livability": An Essay by Simona Capisani (Keywords: Climate Change; Justice; Territory; Mobility)
"Where and how we are situated and impacted by the shifting and shrinking climate niche is not incidental."
Malcom Ferdinand
- 9 min
"Coloniality": An Essay by Malcom Ferdinand (Keywords: Ecology; Anthropocene; Decolonial Thought)
"We may be on the same boat, but not everybody is treated equally – and some are jettisoned at the first gust of wind."
Alexander Douglas
- 12 min
"Capitalism": An Essay by Alexander Douglas (Keywords: Climate Crisis; Rentierism; Politics; Marx)
"Current governments have demonstrated their inability to manage even a full baby-step towards carbon neutrality."
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