CUNY Academic Commons | Samihah S. | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/marigolds/activity/ Activity feed for Samihah S.. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 ebaf536c1affa564ed667fc3315e8295 Samihah S. commented on the post, June 30 Postnatural, on the site Art in Times of Environmental Crises https://ecoartcrises.commons.gc.cuny.edu/postnatural/#comment-1485 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:52:07 -0400 Thought it was super interesting how you connected the Maja Skreker artwork to the concept of milk siblings & breastfeeding as a way to establish kinship in Islam. It reminded me of the theme in the lecture of […]

]]> 66cd32c98971b96bcaf04473258c4bf9 Samihah S. commented on the post, June 30 Postnatural, on the site Art in Times of Environmental Crises https://ecoartcrises.commons.gc.cuny.edu/postnatural/#comment-1483 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:28:01 -0400 I appreciated that this week’s lecture invited us to critically examine what it means for something to be “natural,” and to think about what it means if our conception of nature & the natural is something […]

]]> 7d1d3656b0f5e5ddf1e73b1f9fb63b0d Samihah S. commented on the post, June 25 Climate Refugees, on the site Art in Times of Environmental Crises https://ecoartcrises.commons.gc.cuny.edu/climate-refugees/#comment-1477 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:42:56 -0400 Something that stood out to me from the reading this week by T.J. Demos was the idea of the ‘cinema of liberalism.’ Demos critiques Ai Weiwei’s ‘Human Flow’ when he says, “Human Flow ultimately defines a cinema of […]

]]> 5466aaad40c020fd7ade5b2ecfdf1d7c Samihah S. commented on the post, June 18 Slow Violence, on the site Art in Times of Environmental Crises https://ecoartcrises.commons.gc.cuny.edu/slow-violence/#comment-1389 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:11:13 -0400 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 […]

]]> b178b537016ce0230ed9c55c37ba6ae6 Samihah S. commented on the post, June 18 Slow Violence, on the site Art in Times of Environmental Crises https://ecoartcrises.commons.gc.cuny.edu/slow-violence/#comment-1387 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:03:51 -0400 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 […]

]]> ee06275b229323586e352dcf9c245bc2 Samihah S. commented on the post, June 16 Animals, on the site Art in Times of Environmental Crises https://ecoartcrises.commons.gc.cuny.edu/animals/#comment-1351 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:33:37 -0400 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 […]

]]> a0eb1e4847894904a078b1f1ab16490b Samihah S. commented on the post, June 9 Fossil Fuels, on the site Art in Times of Environmental Crises https://ecoartcrises.commons.gc.cuny.edu/june-9-fossil-fuels/#comment-1323 Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:37:45 -0400 “This made me think about how art can function as a tool for making invisible systems visible.” I really like that concept!

]]> 7fc6c339fd19ebab7ae4c2e4ce8a5811 Samihah S. commented on the post, June 9 Fossil Fuels, on the site Art in Times of Environmental Crises https://ecoartcrises.commons.gc.cuny.edu/june-9-fossil-fuels/#comment-1321 Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:26:51 -0400 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, […]

]]> 9223ba44ebfc51f5a576a7ca51996602 Samihah S. commented on the post, June 4 When Are We?, on the site Art in Times of Environmental Crises https://ecoartcrises.commons.gc.cuny.edu/when-are-we/#comment-1259 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:13:21 -0400 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’ […]

]]> ad60c9573f0b5c5929857e3275a5e803 Samihah S. commented on the post, June 4 When Are We?, on the site Art in Times of Environmental Crises https://ecoartcrises.commons.gc.cuny.edu/when-are-we/#comment-1257 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:06:05 -0400 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 […]

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