September 2015

BASR conference 2015

It’s instantly familiar, that slightly disconcerting feeling of being on a full and working campus out of term, with administration quietly buzzing and car parking at a premium, but empty halls, cafeterias and walkways echoing. We conference academics are a scattered tribe, coming from all points, to settle for a few days on borrowed land …

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Black Lives Matter

As an animist, I actually believe that all lives do matter. Most humans don’t. What most humans designate as a ‘life’ in practice has a boundary smaller than the field of living or potentially living beings. It doesn’t include wasps, or plankton, let alone the breath of wind over a corn field, or the slow …

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