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, then we ought to begin to articulate how we navigate 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 externally relating to the rest of the natural world of Read more
Facing the Fall By Whitney A. Bauman “Burn it all down,” was the recent response of a friend when we were talking about the 2024 US election, the conflicts in Israel-Palestine, the rise of nationalisms everywhere, and the lack of governments around the world to respond adequately to global climate Read more
Erotic Ecology: Ecosexuals and F#$% for Forest By Whitney A. Bauman One of the ideas behind queer studies is that heteronormativity is an essential part of what keeps us locked into hierarchies of oppression, at the base of which is human exceptionalism. Humans, that is, are somehow different from the Read more
A Postcolonial Romanticism? By Whitney A. Bauman I was recently a participant at a symposium on the 19th-century “German Darwin,” Ernst Haeckel. For readers who don’t know who Haeckel is, think of a 19th-century EO Wilson mixed with some Richard Dawkins. He was the popularizer of evolutionary theory in Europe, Read more
Eroding Democracy By Whitney A. Bauman In the state of Florida, we have what is called “the sunshine law.” This law was initially meant to curtail corruption at the state level government. As a state employee at Florida International University, for instance, under these laws my salary and all salaries Read more
The Strangeness of the Planetary Future By Whitney A. Bauman Wicked problems call for puzzling solutions. Wicked, here, is of course not the slang skater/surfer/stoner complement when something is amazing. Rather, it is a technical term that identifies what the nature of problems that result from the complex situations, and Read more
Celebrating Five Years of Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge By Whitney A. Bauman and Kocku von Stuckrad If we want to address the major challenges of the 21st century—first and foremost climate disasters, human and other-than-human interdependencies on a global scale, as well as issues of social justice—concerted action is needed to Read more
Florida Is Burning: A Call for Connective Knowledge Systems By Whitney A. Bauman During the post-civil war era, there was a struggle to begin to define an “American” history. As you might imagine, those in the former confederate states and those in the former union states had differences about what Read more
Decolonizing for the Planetary Community A Counterpoint Conversation at the conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) Please join us online for a Counterpoint Conversation and panel discussion at this year’s ISSRNC conference! Conference theme: “After Earth? Religion and Technology on a Changing Read more