Edge Effects

This essay on Brussels’s “feral” wetlands and Japanese knotweed is the fourteenth installment of the Botanical Imaginations series, which complicates, diversifies, and proliferates the stories we tell about plants. Series editors: Laleh Ahmad, Tessa Archambault, Dylan Couch, Ellie Kincaid, Rebecca Laurent, Kayleigh Lobdell, Clare Michaud, Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) took me on an unexpected journey.

This essay on erotic communications about lettuce in the tenth century is the thirteenth installment of the Botanical Imaginations series, which complicates, diversifies, and proliferates the stories we tell about plants. Series editors: Laleh Ahmad, Tessa Archambault, Dylan Couch, Ellie Kincaid, Rebecca Laurent, Kayleigh Lobdell, Clare Michaud, NicolƔs Felipe Rueda Rey Due to its resemblance to a vulva or a buttocks, the peach emoji has become synonymous with both hetero- and homosexual desire.

This essay on decolonizing fern knowledge is the twelfth installment of the Botanical Imaginations series, which complicates, diversifies, and proliferates the stories we tell about plants.

This essay on Bad Bunny’s eco-rasquache aesthetic is the eleventh installment of the Botanical Imaginations series, which complicates, diversifies, and proliferates the stories we tell about plants. Series editors: Laleh Ahmad, Tessa Archambault, Dylan Couch, Ellie Kincaid, Rebecca Laurent, Kayleigh Lobdell, Clare Michaud, Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey There is a plantation on the football field.

This podcast interview is the tenth installment of the Botanical Imaginations series, which complicates, diversifies, and proliferates the stories we tell about plants. Series editors: Laleh Ahmad, Tessa Archambault, Dylan Couch, Ellie Kincaid, Rebecca Laurent, Kayleigh Lobdell, Clare Michaud, Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey History is written by the victors, as the saying goes, and the history of science is no different.

This essay on the connections between mangroves and empire is the ninth installment of the Botanical Imaginations series, which complicates, diversifies, and proliferates the stories we tell about plants. Series editors: Laleh Ahmad, Tessa Archambault, Dylan Couch, Ellie Kincaid, Rebecca Laurent, Kayleigh Lobdell, Clare Michaud, Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey In December 1928, Benito Mussolini broke ground—quite literally—on a massive development project.

This essay on care and toxicity in Colombia’s tobacco economies is the eighth installment of the Botanical Imaginations series, which complicates, diversifies, and proliferates the stories we tell about plants. Series editors: Laleh Ahmad, Tessa Archambault, Dylan Couch, Ellie Kincaid, Rebecca Laurent, Kayleigh Lobdell, Clare Michaud, Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey The industrial tobacco life cycle is insidiously toxic.

Esto ensayo en las conexiones entre la crisis climatica y la novela satirica del siglo decimonoveno « Flatland » es parte de la serie « Troubling Time » lo cual interroga ideas, lugares, procesos y problemas ambientales a través de lente de temporalidad. Editores de serie: Rebecca Laurent, Rudy Molinek, Samm Newton, Prerna Rana, y Weishun Lu Este ensaio foi traduzido por S. D. ‘Sabrì’ Hodell. Original text in English.

Esto ensayo en las conexiones entre la crisis climatica y la novela satirica del siglo decimonoveno « Flatland » es parte de la serie « Troubling Time » lo cual interroga ideas, lugares, procesos y problemas ambientales a través de lente de temporalidad. Editores de serie: Rebecca Laurent, Rudy Molinek, Samm Newton, Prerna Rana, y Weishun Lu Este ensaio foi traduzido por S. D. ‘Sabrì’ Hodell. Original text in English.

This exhibit on the trees of Brazil’s archives is the seventh installment of the Botanical Imaginations series, which complicates, diversifies, and proliferates the stories we tell about plants. Series editors: Laleh Ahmad, Tessa Archambault, Dylan Couch, Ellie Kincaid, Rebecca Laurent, Kayleigh Lobdell, Clare Michaud, Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey In Brazil, the twentieth century was marked by rapid modernization, industrialization, and an aggressive, developmentalist appeal.