SPURSE Nearly twenty years ago we in SPURSE first sensed that many of us involved in the arts were reconceptualizing art in a way that was very different. It was not the usual debate about expanding the definitions of art…
Category: Ecology of Bad Ideas
Learning How to Die, Finally: Revisiting Thought in the Age of Extinction
Emma Kauffman Part One: The Carceral Logic of Western Thought Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom. -Jacques Derrida, The Gift of…
A Mighty Forest Is Our Race: Race, Nature, and Environmentalism in White Nationalist Thought
Kevan A. Feshami Caspar David Friedrich, Rocky Valley (The Tomb of Arminius), circa 1813, Oil on canvas. Public domain. ‘The truest form of prayer is communion with Nature.’[1] Penned by influential white nationalist David Lane, these words capture a deep…