Author’s Note: Back in July, I had the opportunity to present some research on biodiversity archives and species extinction at ASLE and AESS’s Biennial Conference. Since my actual presentation and our subsequent roundtable discussion were only open to conference registrants, I wanted to take this opportunity to share an extended…

I’m currently spending my summer working in the publications department of an art gallery here in New York, proofreading manuscripts, checking proofs, doing archival research, researching book designers, and learning about book production. Although I’ve been collecting art books for ages (mostly hand-me-downs and from free book piles out on…

Author’s Note: This essay contains spoilers for Succession, including the latest episodes from Season 4. Oh, Shiv. Out of all of the characters who comprise the sinisterly funny and infuriatingly stressful corporate chaos of Succession, Siobhan Roy (or Shiv) occupies the most perplexing position on the Waystar Royco game board…

Author’s Note: I’m in a class on decay this semester and one of our assignments was to let something rot for about a month. I had a lot of fun documenting this experience and wanted to share it with all of you. Please enjoy my ramblings on ecology, and art…

“If Maria is a teacher, this emerging movement argues, the storm’s overarching lesson is that now is not the moment for reconstruction of what was, but rather for transformation into what could be.” — Naomi Klein, The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes On Disaster Capitalists, 2018 When a storm…

“The opioid crisis is, among other things, a parable about the awesome capability of private industry to subvert public institutions.” — Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Author’s Note: This essay contains discussion of suicide and substance abuse. All The Beauty and The…

Author’s Note: It was impossible to parse my thoughts about this film without getting deep into the plot, so major spoilers ahead. From the moment the film begins, you have a sense that Tár will be a perpetually playful subversion of expectations. Perhaps nothing sets the viewer up for this…

Author’s Note: This essay contains descriptions of racial and domestic violence. “Modernity’s endless technoscientific entanglements of blood and race are the zenith of vampire culture. It’s a history of blood spilt in the name of bloodlines…Modernity is the Age of Vampires — as much as it’s an age of undead…

Author’s Note: This essay contains spoilers for Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, both the books and the TV adaptation. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe once remarked that “a chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier.” It’s a surprising, provocative consideration: that chairs…