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Rebecca Laurent @thebexxx.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

"Alligator Alcatraz is a harbinger of carceral ecology: a mode of captivity in which environmental hazards, shaped by climate change, become infrastructure. In this age of climate collapse, the state’s new cage is the land itself."

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Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

PLEASE SHARE: Edge Effects is delighted to announce the theme for our 2026 special series: Botanical Imaginations! Drafts are due February 15, 2026. Everyone is welcome to submit! Read more & apply: edgeeffects.net/botanical-im... 🌱🌳🌾🌴🌵🌻

The words "CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:" and "BOTANICAL IMAGINATIONS" are visible on top of an image of a tree from below. Branches extend in a radial pattern away from a trunk in the center of the image.

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Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Today on the Edge Effects podcast, former managing editor Bri Meyer talks with writer and designer @brebec.bsky.social about her short stories and their themes of gender and environmental destruction. Our first ever bilingual episode is everything we hoped it would be and more! 🔪📚

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Dark Fiction, Sinister Reality: A Conversation with Brenda Becette

Brenda Becette talks about the role of fiction in a our dystopic reality. Becette's short stories avenges women, children, and environment.

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Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

¡Feliz martes de traducción! Hoy en Edge Effects, Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey y Tomás Pino traducen el ensayo de @monikaszuba.bsky.social sobre el tiempo profundo y las políticas de la descomposición. ¿Podemos comprender el cambio geológico y los residuos plásticos en nuestra corta vida? 🦴⏳

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El Asunto del Tiempo

Monika Szuba pregunta cómo los humanos lidian con el tiempo profundo a través del examen de la vida fosilizada, la vida contemporánea y la vida sintética.

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Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Today on Edge Effects, former managing editor Bri Meyer explores the multispecies assemblages that built U.S. cities: how horses were mechanized to perform "cyborg" labor, how these multispecies relationships changed in the automobile era, and the lasting equine footprints in Madison, WI. 🐴🤖

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Cyborg Horses, Urban Growth and the Changing Nature of Labor

Archives from Madison, Wisconsin show the role of mechanized horses, or equine "cyborg" labor, in the growth of U.S. cities.

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Rebecca Laurent @thebexxx.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

"As divisiveness intensifies in the U.S. and around the world, may this project bear witness to the beauty and power of artistic collaboration." Thank you to the huge team of people who made this exhibit possible!

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Rebecca Laurent @thebexxx.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"How do you document the memories of the earth? What does the Anthropocene look like? How does one represent a change in the air, the wind? These photographers explore how to represent the unrepresentable: the absence of water, the presence of air, and the feeling of home." 👇💙

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Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Today on Edge Effects, scholars from a range of disciplines share books/films they are most excited to teach this year on environmental futures and futurity. Their gift for our present, these recommendations span from science fiction to documentary, speculative poetry to historical exhibit. 📚💭

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Faculty Recommendations: Environmental Futures and Futurity

Faculty recommend books, films, and exhibits that critically examine the construction, utility, and politics of environmental futures.

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Rebecca Laurent @thebexxx.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

"People knew about the iconic trinity of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold... But here were Indian thinkers who are saying interesting, unusual, prescient things about human attitudes and relationships to nature." What a privilege to welcome Dr. Guha to the podcast!

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Rebecca Laurent @thebexxx.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

"Imagine how much more hopeless the industrial food system must appear to these cattle, and yet they still choose to be interested in their own lives! Perhaps all I can wish is to stay engaged with this world, even when change feels impossible, even when the choices before me are laughable." 🫶

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Rebecca Laurent @thebexxx.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

“Their humanity erased by the conditions of their life and death, these small artifacts are a powerful reminder: they parented, sang, and prayed, like anyone.” What a powerful, timely exhibit!

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Rebecca Laurent @thebexxx.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

"We ought to take these libertarians seriously when they express the desire to create new societies, especially as they gain the political clout to reshape ours." 🙌 you're amazing @poisoniv3y.bsky.social

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