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Environment

  • ~ Potpourri: Florence

    ~ Potpourri: Florence

    Langer, the Europeanist, the practical pacifist, the man who inaugurated Italian environmentalism and inspired European environmentalism.

  • The plant whisperers

    The plant whisperers

    If you know what you are looking for, you find edible and healing plants everywhere.

  • Re-generation

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    Photos of young cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, who prove that after decades of depletion, soil recovery is possible.

  • Tree illness as metaphor

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    What do we tell ourselves when all the trees simply vanish?

  • Parallel world

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    Photos of a Thai village that, due to coastal erosion, is slowly but surely giving way to the sea.

  • Something rotten

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    On the sanatoriums of Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium and Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.

  • Neanderthal aesthetics

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    Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, reviewed. «If we discovered a Neanderthal novel, would we be worthy of it?»

  • Blue memoir

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    A water superpower runs dry. A photo series from Hungary.

  • Down the mine shaft

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    A new book challenges the myth of photography’s immateriality.

  • Independence and/or Death

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    Brazilian artist Jaime Lauriano recreated the iconic painting Independence or Death (1822). A scorched earth remains in his own Independence and Death (2022).

  • Visit the extractocene!

    Visit the extractocene!This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    The Eisenthür silver mine is real; the village below is entirely fictive.

  • Doom is in the details

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    Floods, hailstorms, plague, fire, children lost on a mountain or trapped for years in a ruined villa. On the stories of Adalbert Stifter.