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Allison Carruth - "Novel Ecologies" - Julia Adeney Thomas
Friday, April 18, 2025 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Allison Carruth will discuss Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech. She will be joined in conversation by Julia Adeney Thomas. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. At the Co-op. RSVP Here (Please note your RSVP is requested but not required) About the Book Novel Ecologies investigates a distinctly California paradigm shaped by the tech industry—what Allison Carruth terms Nature Remade.
Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech
. Jan. 2025. 224p. ISBN 9780226837734. pap. $27.50.
Humans as Nature
A literary scholar profiles environmental activists murdered for their cause. A Byzantine historian collaborates with scientists to investigate how climate change affected the agricultural economy of a small settlement in Anatolia. A political philosopher draws on Plato’s Republic to imagine ways of building a sustainable future.
All Eyes On California Strawberries: 40,000 People Join Scientists To Oppose Methyl Iodide
California’s little-known Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) entered the spotlight this month as scientists, farm workers, and activists rallied against the department’s proposal to approve methyl iodide for use in the state’s $2.1 billion strawberry industry. (Civil Eats first reported on methyl iodide here.) On Thursday, DPR officials along with scientists testified at a State Senate hearing on the controversial fumigant, which chemists classify as a neurotoxin and carcinogen.
Wild Cuisines, Risky Futures: Reimagining What We Consider Edible Species
Published as part of an environmental storytelling partnership with UCLA's Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS), with extensive contributions from faculty and MFA students in UCLA’s documentary film program in the School of Theater, Film and Television. The third storyline explores current innovations and visions for ecological, equitable food systems. Find more stories envisioning Food Futures here.
The Postindustrial Pastoral
Adrienne Su’s accomplished new book of poems Living Quarters invites meditation on the material specificities of too-readily-typecast locales. Recalibrating the geographical and cultural tropes of American nature writing, Living Quarters offers readers a portrait of rural modernity rather than pastoral nostalgia—a portrait that unsettles the divisions of agricultural versus industrial and provincial versus cosmopolitan that have long defined ideas of place in the American national imaginary.
Michael Pollan’s Dilemma
In the 20th anniversary edition of On Food and Cooking, the celebrated food writer Harold McGee claims that “to understand what’s happening within a food as we cook it, we need to be familiar with the world of invisibly small molecules and their reactions with each other.” But why, we might ask? Cooking is cultural as much as it is biochemical.
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