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Keyword: Scar A scar is a mark. A mark of a “wound, burn, or sore that has not healed completely” (Oxford Dictionary, 2021). Different types of scars exist beyond that of bodily tissue scars, one type being ecological scars. Ecological scars appear due to the human-produced wounds of industry and...

Key Word: Psychogeography There are about ten songs I repeat in my mind, which I’m not sure make them my favorites, but nonetheless, one of their lyrics is: “I got tired of living with depression so I went for a little walk” (“Hands in the Dirt” 2011). This punchy song...

Key Word: Advertisements We are consumed by advertisements. Our lives are decorated with enticing images and sharp catchphrases that are meant to elicit a response from us in our inherent role as consumers. Their depth is inescapable; advertisements peek out at us from roadways, they speak to us from radios,...

Keyword: Material Witness The concept of material witness has been articulated by researcher, documentary filmmaker, and artist, Dr. Susan Schuppli, in her book Material Witness as “nonhuman entities and machinic ecologies” that archive their complex interactions with the world, producing ontological transformations and informatic dispositions that can be forensically decoded...

Keyword: Naturecultures In this keyword essay I attempt to interrogate the nature/culture binary through personal histories Heartbroken, I weep by the shore of this life, Who, pray, will take me across? Boatman, I don’t know your name. [1] The beats of the Bhatiali ebb and flow like the tides of...

Keyword: Looking In the Introduction to The Ecological Thought , author Timothy Morton makes an intriguing suggestion for a mode of perception in regards to thinking of and seeing the environment, especially concerning the visualization of ecological crises and ecological interconnectedness. He wrote that the study of art could provide...

Keyword: Social Permaculture Social Permaculture is the praxis of permaculture methodology applied to social relationships. This method of social relating and community building draws inspiration from the intelligence and cycles of the natural environment. Social permaculture is a concept by which communities look to natural environments to model co-existence and...

Keyword: Salvage I first came across the term “salvage” used in a complex of environmental and value implications in Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. The loaded title matches the weight of the information in the book;...

Keyword Visibility: Mass Incarceration’s Presence During Climate Change “If we make it a bad enough experience then wouldn’t that deter people from prison?” The same sentiment seems to be the last hope of the quiet population watching the climate change, if conditions get bad enough, we’ll stop our bad behavior,...

Keyword: Geoengineering Geoengineering is usually defined as the deliberate large-scale intervention in the climate system of the Earth with the purpose of mitigating the worst consequences of global warming. Understandably, this activates deep anxieties about technology in a lot of people, since it involves a radical level of interference with...