The newest history by Elizabeth Turvey (historian of flame) is now available at The Elizabeths. It is a story of life and death and love and loss and two tiny phoenixes, and you can find it by heading over to The History of Candles. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading The History of Candles: A Little Story
The newest history by Elizabeth Turvey (historian of flame) is now available at The Elizabeths. You can find it by heading over to The History of Lightning. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading The History of Lightning: A Little Story
Some gatherings serve as reminders of why it’s important for people to make time to physically come together to share work and ideas. A recent workshop on cartography and spatial thinking organized by Katharina Piechocki and Tom Conley at Radcliffe was a model of this, generous and inspiring in all kinds of wonderful ways. Here, see for yourself: this is an offering, an inventory of moments … Continue reading quote and paraphrase (a little list)
Springtime at The Elizabeths is a time for love stories. The newest history by Elizabeth Sanders (historian of liquid) is now available. You can find it by heading over to The History of Rain. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading The History of Rain: A Little Story
The newest story by Elizabeth Woodfall (historian of wind) is now available, and you can find it by heading over to The History of Shivers. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading The History of Shivers: A Little Story
The newest little story from The Elizabeths, a fiction experiment in conjectural early modern history, is now up on the site. This is the first story by Elizabeth Turvey, historian of flame. You can read it by clicking over to “The History of Ashes.” For more on the project, check this out. Continue reading The History of Ashes: A Little Story
Jonathan Ichikawa and I co-wrote an opinion piece for the The Vancouver Sun about our experiences with faculty activism in the midst of the current crisis of governance at UBC. You can find it by heading over here. Continue reading Standing up for change at UBC: an op-ed
There’s a new storypost up at “Reading Notes: The Intertwining – The Chiasm”: this one is a translation of the first sentence of the Merleau-Ponty essay that forms the heart of this fiction/translation/exploration/reading project. You can find it by clicking on the red link in the text below! “If it is true that as soon as philosophy declares itself to be reflection or coincidence it prejudges what it … Continue reading all at once, pell-mell
A new post in the “Translating Recipes” series just went up on The Recipes Project. This one is a further exploration of the power of between-ness and Manchu medical recipes. It’s part 2 of 3, and you can check it out by heading over here. Continue reading Translating Recipes: Between, Pt. 2
Anna L. Tsing’s new book is on my new (as of this post) list of Must-Read-Books-That-All-Humans-Who-Can-Read-Should-Read-And-That-Nonhumans-Should-Find-A-Way-To-Somehow-Engage-Even-If-Reading-Is-Not-Their-Thing. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Princeton University Press, 2015) joyfully bursts forth in a “riot of short chapters” that collectively open out into a mushroom-focused exploration of what Tsing refers to as a “third nature,” or “what manages to live despite … Continue reading The Mushroom at the End of the World: An Interview
Carla Nappi 