on May 15, 2020
Exploring With Turkeys: An Illustrated Story
Anthropocene . Collaboration . Ecology . For Kids, Teachers, and Parents . Resilience . Tales of ProgressThis post corresponds with an essay entitled: “Stories in, of, and for the Anthropocene: Exploring with Turkeys“ For a short essay on why I went exploring with turkeys click here: http://anthropocene.wescreates.wesleyan.edu/uncategorized/stories-in-of-and-for-the-anthropocene-why-explore-with-turkeys/
on April 2, 2020
Spiny Pines at the End of the World
Anthropocene . Collaboration . Ecology . Mushrooms . Personal Reflections . Resilience“In open and disturbed landscapes, it’s hard to keep a pine down.” (Tsing, 169) This spiny, resilient tree is a subject of the utmost fascination for writer Anna Tsing, in her book “The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins.” Introducing the pine as an integral supporting
on March 31, 2020
Fungi, Our Teachers
Collaboration . Mushrooms . Personal Reflections . Tales of ProgressTo survive, we must continuously adapt our ways of being by allowing gatherings to change us. The tree of life is insubstantial as a guiding model for our existence because it writes an elite into its framework, assuming a hierarchy, a top rung built on the backs of other subordinates. Fungi, members of the eponymous
on March 30, 2020
Playing Together Amongst Ruins
Anthropocene . Capitalism . Collaboration . Personal Reflections . Tales of ProgressUnder the guise of growth and productivity, capitalism has instead left ruins in its wake. Whether it be the terrors of global warming, depletion of natural resources in the name of capital, increasing job insecurity, or individual physical and mental exhaustion, capitalist ruins surround us. Throughout this piece, I hope to illustrate what is meant
on March 30, 2020
Capitalistic Ruins: A Case
Capitalism . Collaboration . Mushrooms . Personal Reflections . Tales of ProgressIn the past decade, Brazilian private schools have been interested in the possibility of sending students to study abroad, either to participate in summers or, more importantly, to attend college as undergraduates. These schools have dedicated SAT/TOEFL professors, college application tutors and connections with multiple universities across the world with the promise of sending their
