January/February 2016
The New Nature
In our first forum of 2016, Jedediah Purdy accepts that there is no longer a nature independent of human meddling—so how then, he asks, do we make that condition more democratic? Alisa Reznick reports on how clean water is being used as a weapon in Syria's civil war, and David G. Victor questions whether university divestment from fossil fuels really brings us closer to a greener future. In an arresting personal essay, Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey reports on an experiment in the humane raising and butchering of pigs. Also, Nick Bromell asks whether we should...
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The New Nature
Jedediah Purdy debates
Jo Guldi, Jairus Grove, Robert Paarlberg, Andreas Malm, David Keith, Anna Tsing, Ugo Mattei, Vandana Shiva, Paul Waldau, and Roy Scranton.
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
Foundations
Dispatch: Weaponizing Syria’s Water
Alisa Reznick
Made in America: Survey Says . . .
Claude Fischer
Books & Ideas
Carbon on Campus
David G. Victor
To Be and To Do
Giorgio Agamben’s L’uso dei corpi. Homo sacer, IV, 2
Leland de la Durantaye
Leland de la Durantaye
Beyond Freedom and Equality
The Democratic Value of Dignity
Nick Bromell
Nick Bromell
On Poetry
Poet’s Sampler
Uyen Hua introduced by Chris Nealon
A Strange and Quiet Fullness
Charles Simic’s The Life of Images and The Lunatic
Robert Archambeau
The Volatile I
Alejandra Pizarnik’s Extracting the Stone of Madness
Johannes Goransson
Johannes Goransson
Microreviews of Juan Felipe Herrera’s Notes on the Assemblage; Caroline Knox’s To Drink Boiled Snow; Leopoldine Core’s Veronica Bench; Susie Timmons’s Superior Packets; and Danielle Vogel’s Between Grammars.
Poems
Luminaires and The City of Fremont Streets Department
John Mullen
What Made it Good
Allyson Paty
These Miles
Aaron Coleman
Parade
Bret Shepard
“The days that were have now”
Emilia Phillips
moon as my witness and scrapers parody buddha
Amber Atiya
The Words,
Mark Irwin
want (18) and want (19)
Rusty Morrison
Oddities
Barbara Tramonte
Footnoting Biggie Lyrics Like Why Christmas Missed Us
David Tomas Martinez
