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Defending Truths, Restoring Worlds, Bart H. Welling 2017 University of North Florida

Defending Truths, Restoring Worlds, Bart H. Welling

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The "post" in "post-truth" is premature, and also assigns too much importance to Brexit and the victory of Donald Trump in the US. Worst of all, it can foster the impression that people like Brexit voters and Trump supporters are irredeemably exiled in "alternative fact" bubbles beyond the reach of science, rational thought, and common decency. We have to find ways to work productively with these kinds of citizens, instead of merely condemning them, if we want to trigger both a worldwide alternative energy revolution and the revolution in politics and economics that a truly just and sustainable energy transition …


Heroes Vs. Villains, Evan A. Poole 2017 The Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and sciences in Kentucky

Heroes Vs. Villains, Evan A. Poole

Sierpinski’s Square

This article questions the use of heroes and villains in literature, whether our perceptions of these characters as good and evil is proper, and what literature should do beyond this dichotomy.


What Rises Above The White Noise: The Possibility Of Hearing Truth In A Post-Truth World, Harriet Fraser, Rob Fraser 2017 University of Glasgow

What Rises Above The White Noise: The Possibility Of Hearing Truth In A Post-Truth World, Harriet Fraser, Rob Fraser

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This installation in a valley in the UK’s Lake District National Park taps into the idea of communication, the problem of apparent fact and post-truth, and which voices are being heard when it comes to standing up for the environment. In consideration of post-truth and the confusion between fact and fiction, particularly with regard to issues about environment, this art installation explores the possibility of clarity in voices that are heard above the white noise of facts, partial truths and information overload. It is a site-specific installation, created around a single tree and a rapidly flowing river in the Lake …


(Another) Battle In The Clouds, Mél Hogan 2017 University of Calgary

(Another) Battle In The Clouds, Mél Hogan

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At age ten, in 1918, Rachel Carson entered a writing contest and won. In "Battle in the Clouds", Carson wrote about the sky as a battlefield, where a soldier’s life is momentarily spared because of an act of bravery undeniable even by his enemies. They watch in awe and admiration rather than shoot. For my reimagining of the present as womb rather than grave, I reflect on the current use of the cloud in “cloud computing” to discuss the role of the internet and its material infrastructures in shaping earthly possibilities. I imagine the pace and place of awe rather …


Reading Speculative Futures In A Post-Truth World, Rachel Webb Jekanowski 2017 Concordia University

Reading Speculative Futures In A Post-Truth World, Rachel Webb Jekanowski

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Faced with the threat of a “post-truth” world and a widening chasm of exchange between climate change deniers and environmentalists, I argue that future-orientated literary and media speculative fictions—which I term “speculative futures”—offer a means of building lines of communication across social and political divisions. This thought piece on “The Environmental Humanities in a Post-Truth World” mediates upon the potentiality of speculative futures as theory, social bridge-building, and pedagogical tool. Speculative fictions (especially those that address environmental justice, and anti-colonial and feminist politics) use storytelling and future imaginaries to challenge political falsehoods and imagine more ecological, de-colonized futures.


The Child To Come: Life After The Human Catastrophe By Rebekah Sheldon, Nathan Tebokkel 2017 University of British Columbia

The Child To Come: Life After The Human Catastrophe By Rebekah Sheldon, Nathan Tebokkel

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Review of Rebekah Sheldon's The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe.


From The Tundra To The Trenches By Eddy Weetaltuk, Vivian M. Hansen 2017 University of Calgary

From The Tundra To The Trenches By Eddy Weetaltuk, Vivian M. Hansen

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Review of Eddy Weetaltuk's From the Tundra to the Trenches.


Boundary Layer: Exploring The Genius Between Worlds By Kem Luther, Mary H. Scriver Rev. 2017 independent scholar

Boundary Layer: Exploring The Genius Between Worlds By Kem Luther, Mary H. Scriver Rev.

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Review of Kem Luther's Boundary Layer: Exploring the Genius Between Worlds.


Littoral, Robie Liscomb 2017 Independent scholar/poet

Littoral, Robie Liscomb

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Poetry by Robie Liscomb


Three Poems, Maureen Scott Harris 2017 Wilfrid Laurier University

Three Poems, Maureen Scott Harris

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Poetry by Maureen Scott Harris


Qigong Dancer, Andrea L. Nicki 2017 Farleigh Dickinson University

Qigong Dancer, Andrea L. Nicki

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Poetry by Andrea L. Nicki


Escargatoire, Simon Orpana 2017 University of Alberta

Escargatoire, Simon Orpana

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Poetry by Simon Orpana


Singing Meadow: The Adventure Of Creating A Country Home By Peri Phillips Mcquay, Randy Lee Cutler 2017 Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Singing Meadow: The Adventure Of Creating A Country Home By Peri Phillips Mcquay, Randy Lee Cutler

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Review of Peri Phillips McQuay's Singing Meadow: The Adventure of Creating a Country Home.


Creaturely Love: How Desire Makes Us More And Less Than Human By Dominic Pettman, Gina M. Granter 2017 Dawson College

Creaturely Love: How Desire Makes Us More And Less Than Human By Dominic Pettman, Gina M. Granter

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Review of Dominic Pettman's Creaturely Love: How Desire Makes Us More and Less than Human.


Otolith By Emily Nilsen, Christine Lowther 2017 none.

Otolith By Emily Nilsen, Christine Lowther

The Goose

Review of Emily Nilsen's Otolith.


Deep Salt Water By Marianne Apostolides, Jenna Gersie 2017 Wilfrid Laurier University

Deep Salt Water By Marianne Apostolides, Jenna Gersie

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Review of Marianne Apostolide's Deep Salt Water.


The Moth Snowstorm By Michael Mccarthy, Joanna Streetly 2017 None

The Moth Snowstorm By Michael Mccarthy, Joanna Streetly

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Review of Michael McCarthy's The Moth Snowstorm.


Ice Bear: The Cultural History Of An Arctic Icon By Michael Engelhard, Geneviève Pigeon 2017 Université du Québec à Montréal

Ice Bear: The Cultural History Of An Arctic Icon By Michael Engelhard, Geneviève Pigeon

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Review of Michael Engelhard's Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon.


Barking & Biting: The Poetry Of Sina Queyras Selected By Erin Wunker, Jenny Kerber 2017 Wilfrid Laurier University

Barking & Biting: The Poetry Of Sina Queyras Selected By Erin Wunker, Jenny Kerber

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Review of Erin Wunker's (ed.) Barking & Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras.


Believing Is Not The Same As Being Saved By Lisa Martin, Gillian Harding-Russell 2017 University of Saskatchewan

Believing Is Not The Same As Being Saved By Lisa Martin, Gillian Harding-Russell

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Review of Lisa Martin's Believing is not the same as Being Saved.


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