Publications - Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge

Our Hitch-Up Culture By Anna Mercedes I teach in an American university culture where there is a lot of concern about the students’ casual hook-up culture—a too-fast coupling without long-term Read more…

September 26, 2018

Counterpoint Blog

What It Means to Deny Climate Change

What It Means to Deny Climate Change By Susannah Crockford On 26 August 2018, sixty academics, environmentalists, and politicians released an open letter asserting that they will no longer debate with those who deny anthropogenic Read more…

September 19, 2018

Counterpoint Blog

Perception and the Platypus

Perception and the Platypus By Jay Johnston I was desperate to see a platypus. Standing on riverbanks I would look out, simultaneously expectant and forlorn, scanning for signs of this notoriously shy monotreme. The platypus Read more…

September 12, 2018

Counterpoint Blog

Social media as religion – unexamined desire and (mis-in)formation

Social media as religion – a tale of unexamined desire and (mis-in)formation by Dion Forster It could be said that social media is the most prevalent religion of our time. Like other faiths, it forms Read more…

September 5, 2018

Counterpoint Blog

A Crisis for Governance and a Boon for Populism

Uncoupling Democracy’s Forms from their Purposes: A Crisis for Governance and a Boon for Populism by Marcia Pally I’m still pondering this bit of data: Americans who, under the proposed Republican replacement for Obamacare Read more…

August 29, 2018

Art and Fiction

Cleo Mikutta: // \\, Part 1

// \\ By Cleo Mikutta “It is hard to write a beautiful song. It is harder to write several individually beautiful songs that, when sung simultaneously, sound as a more beautiful polyphonic whole. The internal Read more…

August 24, 2018

Short Essays

Making Senses: Poetic Knowledge of Nature in Science, Art, and Shamanic Ritual

Making Senses: Poetic Knowledge of Nature in Science, Art, and Shamanic Ritual by Kocku von Stuckrad Download a PDF Version of this essay (6 MB) Abstract The five senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching Read more…

August 24, 2018

Counterpoint Blog

Counterpoint: Conducting Edward Said’s ‘And Also’

Counterpoint: Conducting Edward Said’s ‘And Also’ by Alissa Jones Nelson Binaries are bogus constructions. We live in a world of continuum, of three-dimensional spiral. Linear progress is a myth we’ve told ourselves almost to death. Read more…

August 23, 2018

Counterpoint Blog

Berlin’s Contrapuntal Agency: How Where We Live Changes What We Know

Berlin’s Contrapuntal Agency: Or, How Admitting the Knowledge of Place Can Change Science, Politics, and Culture by Kocku von Stuckrad Do places have knowledge? Do they have memory? If places convey these to us, is Read more…

August 15, 2018

Counterpoint Blog

The Time of Loneliness

The Time of Loneliness by Whitney A. Bauman We live in a world of sped-up reality. Sociologists describe the fossil-fueled pace of our world as a “space-time” crunch. This means that the communities near to Read more…

August 8, 2018