Speaking with the Dead: An Ethnography of Extrahuman Experience

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If you tried speaking with a dead person and they gave you a clear response, how would you react? In Speaking with the Dead, Matt Tomlinson describes his experiences training as a medium with a Spiritualist congregation in Australia. Mediums develop their minds and bodies to communicate messages from the deceased to their living loved[…]

Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice

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Published: 08/15/2023

Disability justice and ecojustice are rarely considered together but are in constant conversation in our world. Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice, combining poetry and the lyrical essay, doesn’t contain just one point of view but encompasses dialectical perspectives which often exist in contradiction to each other. A disabled person is in[…]

Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times

Published: 10/09/2018

A spectre is haunting humanity: the spectre of a reality that will outwit and, in the end, bury us. “The Anthropocene,” or The Human Era, is an attempt to name our geological fate – that we will one day disappear into the layer-cake of Earth’s geology – while highlighting humanity in the starring role of[…]