By Sean McLernon
Global warming is terrifying for many people under the age of 30, and, as someone in that cohort who hopes to make it to old age, I’m a bit worried myself.
Working as an environmental news reporter reminds me daily of the bleak long-term outlook. There’s no quick...
By Richard Grusin
October 22, 2013: What does it feel like to live in the anthropocene? My experience in reading three stories on facing pages of this morning's New York Times speaks directly to this question, as well as to what I have for the past couple of years been...
By Zach Finch
In Frieda Knobloch’s recent C21 lecture, she discussed methods that would allow us to conceptualize and create new spaces in order to approach the discourse of climate change and the environment. Her work attempts to break down binaries between human and environment (i.e. humans wrecked environment therefore...
By Molly McCourt
Frieda Knobloch’s work exceeds disciplinary boundaries. She is at once the botanist who retraced the steps of Aven Nelson, the creative writer who is exploring the Red Desert through a gruff character named Ed Ray, or the environmentalist who strongly senses the urgency of addressing global climate...
By Eli Frank
I began this summer’s Archive Fellowship ruminating on the historical intimacies between C21’s institutional history and my own research project. Both C21...
Professor Keramet Reiter gives some detail about the consequences of solitary confinement, and begins to frame a longer discussion for thinking about changes in...
Author
Sassafras Lowery
Description
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, seniors--one of the most vulnerable populations to the illness--are more isolated than ever before. Ageless Innovation,...
Author
Juno Salazar Parreñas
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In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan...
Author
Nicole R. Fleetwood
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More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families...
Host
Baktash Ahadi
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In this episode, we discuss loneliness and brokenness, and the power of music to be the catalyst for connection and healing. Vijay shares...
Author
Keramet Reiter
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Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day...
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Barbara J. King
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As people come to understand more about animals’ inner lives—the intricacies of their thoughts and the emotions that are expressed every day...
Contributors
THE STANFORD GRAPHIC NOVEL PROJECT 2018-2019: Candice Kim, Katherine Liu, Lily Nilipour, Sarah Shourd, Lucy Zhu, Peter DiCampo, Danial Shadmany, Nik Wesson, Elena Kamas,...