Epistemologies of Grief: Toward a More Inclusive Broken Heart By Jenny Veninga My childhood involved going to a lot of funerals, or at least it felt that way. Many of those services were for human members of my extended family—aunts and uncles and then all of my grandparents. But I Read more
Stags, Stones, and Stakes: A Point/Counterpoint Conversation with Jay Johnston Point: From Regimes of Mastery to Creative Confusion By Kocku von Stuckrad Jay Johnston’s new book with the enigmatic title Stag and Stone: Religion, Archaeology and Esoteric Aesthetics is a stunning and elegant piece of scholarship. It carries on musings Read more
“Feral” Mappings: Entanglements, Multiplicity, Thinking with the Planet By Whitney A. Bauman Perhaps most readers know and assent to the idea that “the map is not the territory.” But, do we actually live as if that were true? On a daily basis, I take maps to be reality: google maps Read more
Decolonizing Knowledge: Anthropocentrism and Cosmotheandrism in a World of Technologies By Simon Kofi Appiah Knowledge production for a sustainable biosphere must forego any overdependence on exploitative epistemologies. Exploitative ways of knowing promote domination, and dominance reverses the order of knowing. In such schemes, power becomes knowledge instead of knowledge becoming Read more
Beyond Epistemicide: Toward Multiple Forms of Knowledge by Joram Tarusarira Knowledge production, authentication, and dissemination require transcending a universal, fundamentalist[1] canon of thought that privileges one knowledge system at the expense of others. With modernity, a particular knowledge system came to occupy and dominate the academy and claim universality, neutrality, Read more