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Thinking about the planet

Anders Dunkers: Thinking about the planet

ECOLOGY: With the planet as an anchor point, various themes are highlighted here – growth and non-growth, the anthropocene and our understanding of nature, tipping points, disasters and possible futures, geoengineering, fabulous animals and biopolitics.
Svein Hammer -

The vitality of all things

Jane Bennett: Living materiality: The political ecology of things

MATERIALISM: It's about nature, ethics and influence – stem cell research, power outages, obesity epidemics and food policy.
Andrew P. Kroglund -

Photography in a climate time

Copenhagen Photo Festival: Photography can capture nature, document it, but also process nature. Showcase the being, the exotic, the vanishing in a special way.
Steffen Moestrup -

“It would is not over. Long live what it would be! ”

Paul Wapner: Is Wildness Over?

NATURE: The attempt to control nature's wildness locally has created uncontrolled effects globally. Do we have to freeze and sweat more in the future, or is civilization far wilder?
Anders Dunk -

A movie for the big screen

Jan Vardøen: Descent into the Maelstrom

MAGNIFICENT: Ambitious depiction of nature and the people who live and work in Lofoten.
Aleksander Huser -

About being attentive and taking the lot of things

CY Frostholm: Træmuseet

TREES: Through a conversation with trees, the author of the book becomes wiser about his relationship to loneliness, vulnerability and the grief over the disappearance of things.
Alexander Carnera -

Can we recover the Amazon's lung?

Félix Guattari Translated by Christel Pedersen: The three ecologies

ECOSOFI: Current Brazil looks like Guattari's worst nightmare. His mental revolution also suggests that nature itself comes first.
Alexander Carnera -

What place can we give the violence today?

Erland Kiøsterud: The ecology of silence

ECOLOGY: In autobiographical form, Kiøsterud continues his reflection on modernity in the age of the eco-crisis. He points to a normalized brutality that most tacitly accept.
Anders Dunk -

future manufacturing

Elizabeth Gross: Chaos, territory, art. Deleuze and the Earth Framing

ART & PHILOSOPHY: The earth as a whole has been transformed into human territory at the expense of all other life forms. MODERN TIMES prints here an excerpt from the book Chaos, territory, art.
Anders Dunk -

Making the desert green

Jared P. Scott: The Great Green Wall

CLIMATE CHANGES: Musician Inna Modja travels along the 8000-kilometer route for Africa's ambitious Great Green Wall project, where a wall of trees will stretch across the continent.
Carmen Gray -

An eco-anarchist utopia

Cartoonist Alessandro Pignocchi: The recomposition of the moon

: The ZADISTS: «We do not defend nature. We are nature defending itself. "
Mikkel Bolt -

The little piece of urban nature

Phi Ambo: Genopdagelsen

CHILD AND NATURE: How can a curriculum assist the growing human being to interact with the world?
Niels Johan Juhl-Nielsen -
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