I thought this was a really important analysis and perspective on how genocide is committed simultaneously through “fast” and slow violence, and is also tied to economic conditions (like the example you gave of […]
One piece of artwork that stood out to me from this week’s lecture was Martha Rosler’s “B-52 in Baby’s Tears” (1972) depicting a grassy field with one section in the shape of an airplane completely blackened and […]
A piece of artwork that really stood out to me from this week’s lecture was Mishka Henner’s 2013 aerial drone photographs of feedyards in Texas. Seeing the huge gray-brown plots of land dotted with tiny cows next […]
One of the works that stood out to me from today’s lecture was Kader Attia’s “Oil and Sugar” (2007.) As a Muslim, I immediately recognized the shape of the stacked sugar cubes as evocative of the Kaaba in Mecca, […]
I feel like you made a really interesting point about religion adding to the binary between human vs. (non-human) animal and I like that you gave the example of how in Christianity, man was formed in the ‘image’ […]
One idea that I found interesting from the readings was that although ‘anthropocene’ has become a widely recognized and now used term among scientists and geologists, geologists have varying opinions on whether […]
