Tag: Nature

  • Learning to Love Our Monsters AND Our Nature

    Learning to Love Our Monsters AND Our Nature

    Love Your Monsters is a collection of essays that advocate a fairly extreme approach to environmentalism which involves embracing the anthropocene as an opportunity by focusing on technology and celebrating change.  While many of the ideas are fairly far out from many more common forms of environmentalism, even for many scholars in the subject, it…

  • How Do We Define Nature?

    How Do We Define Nature?

    What is nature?  Is it something that exists separate from human culture or is it a construct that we create to explain what we want to remain undisturbed?  What does our definition of nature say about us?  How does it inform our approach to environmentalism? This week we focused on defining the boundaries of environmental…