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1. Observing the Observers of Systems and Environments

   Linda Brigham reviews the Spring and Fall 1995 issues of Cultural Critique.

   Where is the real you? Behind the eyeballs, right; the center of a panoptical cinema, your virtual head spinning around like Linda Blair’s in The Exorcist. Watching the world go by.

   tye042 - 05.10.2017 - 13:24

2. Scared Straight

   Carol Stabile reviews Our Stolen Future.

   Since the publication of Paul de Kruif’s Microbe Hunters in 1926, the genre of “scientific detective” stories has enjoyed a quiet but consistent level of popularity. Typically, these stories have functioned as celebrations of (or ideological guarantors for) the virtues of the scientific enterprise. This genre, however, properly belongs to an earlier era in the twinned history of science and industrialization: an era armed with certainty, rationality, and faith in scientific progress.

   tye042 - 05.10.2017 - 14:50

3. Attractions Around Mount St. Helens

   Joseph McElroy shares field notes and reflections from Mount St. Helens.

   Nearly two decades after the great eruption of May, 1980, a slow, remarkable regrowth of flora as well as a massive human involvement feed back to me old questions about the ecological order and our place in it. “A mountain bounces back,” I read; Mt. St. Helens has struggled “to be born again.” That’s not it, I think, but I am moved by the reappearance of plants and trees and animals and fish at Mt. St. Helens - the symbiotic reaching out of fungus filaments to plants roots deep beneath the volcanic ash, the herd of Roosevelt’s elk returning to feed on grass sprouting from the earth of an apparently unwelcoming ashy, silica-infused but now media-hyped “miraculous mudslide.” This blast equal to 2500 Hiroshimas the environment did, not us. But what is the environment? I search the abstracts of some of the more than 500 vineyard-laboring, exact, and specialized field studies that have provided “an excellent baseline for tracking ecosystem reassembly here.”

   tye042 - 17.10.2017 - 15:37

4. Attractions Around Mount St. Helens

   Joseph McElroy shares field notes and reflections from Mount St. Helens.

   tye042 - 03.11.2017 - 17:17