As awareness of climate change grows, so do the number of cultural depictions of
environmental disaster. Graphic novels have reliably produced dramatizations of such …

Where in the realm of the sensible can we locate the impact of large-scale anthropogenic
processes on biodiversity? In this article I develop a critical approach I term" biocultural …

Martha did not lay the white egg that could have prolonged this story. Neither she nor he
wanted to hatch and then feed the little being who would have emerged—during those …

In this essay I analyze two dominant narratives in climate change discourse, which I label"
the lifeboat" and" the collective," and trace the eugenic and Utopian sources of these …

“Immersive... bracingly ambitious... rewinds the story of life on Earth—from the mammoth
steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago.” …

Post-apocalyptic fiction taps into the deepest springs of ancient and evolved emotions, but it
found in modernity a particularly hospitable cultural ecology and a particularly receptive …

Humankind is currently confronted with what some biologists call the sixth mass extinction of
species in the history of life on Earth, and the first one triggered by humans. This essay …

Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth's atmosphere,
committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps …

2024 Hugh J. Silverman Book Prize in Philosophy and Literature Who Would You Kill to
Save the World? examines how postapocalyptic cinema uses images from the past and …

A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next What comes after
extinction? Including both prominent and unusual voices in current debates around the …