More Horizon: A Commentary
By Adriana Petryna, University of Pennsylvania § The U.S. leads the world in confirmed cases of and deaths from COVID-19. At the start of the pandemic, its trajectory…
Tag: The Event-The Horizon
The Epistemology of Cutting and the Metaphysics of Continuities
By Meredith Root-Bernstein, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France; Center of Sustainability and Applied Ecology, Santiago, Chile; Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, Santiago, Chile § Confinement …
Cattle, Fracking, and the Problem of Latent Control in American Settler Ecology
By Néstor L. Silva, Stanford University § In May of 2017, I visited a frack site along with a group of petroleum engineering students from the University of…
Horizons, Not Curves: Creating Space for Radical Care in a Pandemic
By Randall Burson II and Angela Ross Perfetti § “If you have an R0 of 2 — two more cases on average for every person infected — the…
The Vanishing Land: In Search of a Myth for Samothraki
By Eleni Kotsira, University of St Andrews § It is an evening in the early days of August 2019. I am sitting at a café in an alleyway…
Have Some Mental Health: The Black Summer Bushfires, COVID-19, and the Governance of Psychic Retreat
By Aaron Neiman, Stanford University § Introduction: Hard to Process The events of the recent past have felt increasingly difficult to process. It is a sentiment that one…