The proliferation of plastics in terrestrial, aquatic and marine environments is not only transforming the ecology of the planet, but also altering the biochemical makeup
Living Extinctions
BREAKING NEWS – October 2018: the IPPC reports only 12 years to avoid disastrous global warming; April 2019: Extinction Rebellion emerges as a visual force and
Feed Our Progress
What food will nurture future revolutions? To answer this question, Sated brings to the table food radical and artist Petr Davydtchenko, who, over the last
Cohabiting the Microcosm and Macrocosm
This study session of Calculative Environments (curated by Theo Reeves-Evison) at Nottingham Contemporary attends to the question of eco-aesthetic ‘scale effects’. How does the world or reality
Scalar Aesthetics of Ecocinema: The Wall and The Survivalist
This article concentrates on two twenty-first century examples of popular ‘ecocinema’ in order to ask what moving images accomplish when they take on the scale
After Baruchello: Agricultural Encounters in Contemporary Art
This chapter identifies a cultural turn towards political ecology, in the sense that Bruno Latour defines it, primarily due to the contentiousness within pre-established categories
