One idea that kept coming up in both the reading and lecture was the belief that technology can fix almost anything. The discussion around geoengineering challenges that assumption by asking whether changing the […]
I’ve always thought of nature as something separate from humans like forests, oceans, animals, and places untouched by people. What stood out to me is how the idea of the “post natural” challenges that way of […]
The discussion of the 2016–2017 MoMA exhibition featuring the IKEA and UNHCR emergency shelter was one of the most memorable parts of the lecture for me because it transformed the concept of climate displacement f […]
The more I thought about this lecture, the more I realized how narrow my definition of violence has always been. When I hear the word violence, I usually think about war, physical harm, or some kind of disaster […]
Before this lecture, I never really stopped to think about how much of our identity as humans is built around the belief that we are fundamentally different from other animals. As I listened, I kept coming back to […]
I love is responds. Made me think about how to make my personal artwork can be used to bring important situation systems that were built not to prosper the people…
After reading Joseph Romm’s explanation of the greenhouse effect and the chapter Blackout: The Necropolitics of Extraction, I learned that climate change is about more than just the environment. It also affects p […]
One thing that stood out to me from this week’s lecture and readings was the idea that humans have changed the planet so much that scientists are considering an entirely new geological age. That honestly made me […]
