In a previous post, Libby Robin wrote about aseasonality and the seasonal exceptionalism of Australia and elsewhere. The paradox of turning leaves and blossom jostling on the one branch are a striking reminder that our seasons are awry. As few of us in the western world are dependent on acute seasonal observations of fruiting, flowering, … Continue reading “Alison Pouliot: Fungal Futures?”
Notes on attending Immortality and Infinitude in the Anthropocene conference Stockholm I am lucky enough to be able to attend very interesting conferences in the UK and Northern Europe (previously North America but now I feel that is a ‘step’ too far). I value, and to some extent at least, enjoy, these events. But I have got … Continue reading “Owain Jones: “It’s the end of the world as we know it – and I feel ….fine!?!” (REM)”
In the immediacy of the necessity to revalue all values, of course how we travel and the speed at which it supposedly needs to take place, is one band of the multi-spectral issues of ideological oppression and species infantilization that is commanded over us from the plutocracy and its minions. Can we also speak … Continue reading “Jol Thomson: The Wrong Journey and Fugitive Values”
Are we already seeing climate change in action? I pondered on this question earlier in May when in Canberra the street trees carried both blossom and autumn leaves. Very strange to see – the leaves of last year and the promise of spring together on the same boughs, on the same tree. I … Continue reading “Libby Robin: Seasoned travels”
It is a grey and very early November morning. My neighbourhood is empty at this time of the day and I am briskly walking towards the subway station accompanied only by the chilling wind. Realising that I am going to be travelling for 36 hours, I ask myself solemnly; why am I doing this? Why … Continue reading “David Nilsson: Long train running (reflections on quality) “
