Gastrocolonialism and the Unmaking of Worlds By Marsekal Gimbo The relentless displacement of local food systems in Eastern Indonesia by standardized rice and ultra-processed foods (UPFs) is often narrated as a simple story of dietary change, a natural byproduct of Read more
Ethics Without Transcendence: Criteria for Planetary Becoming By Whitney A. Bauman If we are going to have a radically immanent understanding of reality such as found in forms of new materialisms, among many other animist or pantheist ways of thinking, Read more
A Case for Ignorance By Annika Kraft Ignorance leads a shadowy existence in the modern cultural and scientific history of Europe and the West, which is built on opposites: culture–nature, science–religion, ratio–emotion, knowledge–ignorance. Ignorance tends to be seen as a Read more
Cooking up Change: A Hundred Years of World Animal Day By Teya Brooks Pribac Nonhuman animals have always preoccupied the human mind, some animal species—and some human minds—more than others. Communities throughout history have opted to leave animals off the Read more
A Watersheds Moment By Gary Slater The phrase “watershed moment” is used so commonly that it’s easy to forget how, if at all, actual watersheds come into it. If the metaphorical fit of watersheds with moments works well enough that Read more
Porous Boundaries and Borders of Entangled Bodies A Counterpoint Conversation This year, Counterpoint is joining the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The conference is devoted to the Read more
Doggerland Entanglements By Kocku von Stuckrad Imagine that the land between Great Britain, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands was not covered by water. Instead, it consisted of a landscape rich in plant, animal, and fungi life with hills and rivers, Read more
Inside Out / Outside In: Returning our Bodies to the Commons By Whitney A. Bauman Often times the “work” of overcoming what Bruno Latour called “the great divide” between humans and the rest of the natural world is focused on Read more
Bridging the Human and More-than-human World A Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge Research Colloquium Living root bridges are among the biggest tourist attractions in the Indian state of Meghalaya. The indigenous Khasi and Jaintia communities build these bridges together with the aerial Read more
Plants, Art, and Spirituality By Sara Michieletto In front of my window, as I write, I see a man hanging by ropes from a tree. The tree is an American oak tree that I observe every day, throughout the seasons. Read more