If you have looked hard at the manner of things, if you have surveyed the troubles of our time, and cannot discover a way forward, do not despair. Do better. Grieve: mount an altar to the sensuous feelings of loss that swim through you. In the stinging fumes that redden the eyes, you might partly …Continue Reading >>>

Place is a relationship between bodies that constitutes those bodies, not a static container that merely holds presence. To be in a place is to keep making maps to locate oneself there again and again, and being at home is always an exercise in cartography. So how do we find ourselves in modernity? We keep …Continue Reading >>>

A Trumpian wall of sorts divides the world into realms of the social and natural. For so long, we have denied the nonhuman access to the social. We’ve imagined the world mute, dead and good only as resource. What we call the Anthropocene is another way of saying the Wall has been breached. And now …Continue Reading >>>

By 2017, the European Union had 10 incidences of oil spills in 40 years; Nigeria, on the other hand – with Shell Oil pipelines snaking through the Niger Delta since the 70s – had 9343 cases of oil spills…in 10 years. 2030 might be the new well-intentioned deadline for those anxious about climate collapse. The …Continue Reading >>>

If the sacred were far away, we will abuse the nearby. If the sacred were in the future, we will discountenance the present, spit on the elderly, and steel ourselves against dying as if it were a pathology. If the sacred were hidden in the inner worlds of our minds, we will think of the …Continue Reading >>>