Tis that Season, Again: Gifts, Hospitality and Giving Thanks By Whitney A. Bauman If you are like me, the thought of the holidays brings both joy and terror: the joy of being around those you love (biological and/or chosen family), the parties, and all of the eating seem to be 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
Storytelling for Social and Planetary Change – A Pachaysana / Counterpoint Webinar This series of workshops was co-sponsored by The Pachaysana Institute, Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge, The Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab at Florida International University, the Religious Studies Department at Florida International University, as well as the Department of English at Read more
Counterpoint Turns Two—Looking Back and Looking Forward By Whitney A. Bauman & Kocku von Stuckrad Exactly two years ago, on 25 August 2018, we launched Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge with an event in Berlin that addressed “Contrapuntal Responses to Culture Wars, New Nationalisms, and the Challenges of the Anthropocene.” After Counterpoint’s Read more
Mucho, Mucho, Mucho Amor, For the Planet By Whitney A. Bauman I have been thinking about planetary erotics lately. By that I mean the love of bodies, internal and external to us. As David Abrams suggests, biology and the biosphere are all only possible because of that most basic attraction Read more
Immediacy and the End of Modernity’s Ends By Whitney A. Bauman Several recent blog posts have touched on the meanings of end times and apocalypses. One in particular hoped for an apocalypse, in the sense of a new world being uncovered. I want to add to this discussion of the Read more
In the Midst of a Global Pandemic: A Conversation about Dependency, Interconnectedness, and Planetarity 15 May 2020 Dorothea Green Lecture Series, Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs The current Covid crisis, among other things, highlights our dependency upon human others: not just medical workers, but the people who Read more
Rethinking Personhood Beyond the Human: An Online Counterpoint Conversation on Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, 22 April 2020 A special event, featuring David Abram, Teya Brooks Pribac, Whitney A. Bauman, and Kocku von Stuckrad Many regard the celebration of the first Earth Day, on 22 April 1970, Read more
CPR for Planet Earth By Whitney A. Bauman In a recent blog, I wrote about the idea of a “critical Romanticism.” I have now come to think about this as a Critical Planetary Romanticism (CPR) for the earth. Again, it must be critical in order to address the fact that Read more
Snowflakes and Boomers: Does it Have to Be a Shouting Match? By Whitney A. Bauman In his blog post last week, Kocku von Stuckrad argued that we need to (re)establish a tradition of elders. We don’t so much need heroes, but we need to consult our ancestors for wisdom about Read more