Protect Wild Forests: Say No to Trump’s Roadless Rule Repeal
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Enjoying the campanile's Disney themed noon melodies, beginning with "Bells of Notre-Dame," followed by "Colors of the Wind" and "Tale as Old as Time." #UCBerkeley
Revisiting Cixous
#weneedjoy @joyannreid.bsky.social
A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
It was eleven years ago today that I got to interview Ursula Le Guin when she visited Berkeley's Townsend Center. A wonderful memory I feel lucky to have.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovZ6...
Screenshot of my lists: Forestry & Forest Ecosystems Canids Plant Science, Botany Nature and Animal Art Nature and Wildlife Photography Corvids Ecology Fungi & Mycology
Here are my lists, soon to become science and nature feeds.
Want to be added? Which ones? Leave a comment here.
I know there's already an "Ecology and Conservation" feed. I don't intend to compete. I'll be encouraging people to join and contribute to both feeds.
Please share! Gracias! 😸
forestry, plant science, ecology, and fungi please 🍄
Gallica's digital herbarium post for this week is l'anthémis, or chamomile--"symbole d'amour terminé." Happy Valentine's.
“After being nearly wiped out these majestic felines continue to reestablish previously occupied territory despite border wall construction, new mines and other threats to their habitat.”
As COVID cases rise and many valorize a false sense of individual freedom over mask wearing, I can't help but think of Bettine von Arnim's response to Günderode: "ich will nicht frei sein, ich will Wurzel fassen in Dir."
Now tempted to drop everything and just slow read a bunch of Barthes.
Congratulations! Very cool
An excerpt from the linked article, which reads: "Parasymptomatic is a play on parasympathetic, which names the slow, quiet, 'rest and digest' aspects of the nervous system, the opposite of paranoia’s fearful, fight-or-flight response: both, it might be noted, are deep rather than surface structures. But the parasympathetic nervous system is involved in sexual arousal, salivation, tears, urination, digestion, and defecation, and so parasymptomatic reading might name an interpretive method or stance that allows for more surface-level bodily responses to a text—arousal, laughter, drowsiness, goosebumps—as part of its meaning, as well as countering Emily Apter and Elaine Freedgood’s vision of Marxism and deconstruction as 'hypersymptomatic reading.' 'Para,' a prefix that interested Sedgwick, too, signals an analogical/parallel relationship that foils surface and depth (as in parataxis, the placing of words side-by-side without coordinating or subordinating elements)."
in our latest issue, Elizabeth Freeman's study of sadomedicine offers "a way of reading with symptoms, even with one’s own, rather than through or against them" — read "Parasymptomatic Reading: Medical Kink, Care, and the Surface/Depth Debate" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
Cover of How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Dana Luciano. Cover is a landscape painting. An individual and an alpaca walk in the foreground of the painting underneath tall, green trees. A river runs through the landscape before flowing into a waterfall over a rugged cliff. Black smoke plumes into a large, orange-hued cloud as a volcano erupts in the background.
"How the Earth Feels" by @danaluci.bsky.social examines how the impacts of geology on 19th-century US culture catalyzed transformative conversations about the intersections between humans & the nonhuman world. Read the introduction for free now: ow.ly/QLU250Q5vln
2 Days left to make a donation to the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies! These funds make possible travel to the African continent for undergraduate students so that they may conduct research projects there.
Children stand in front of tents. Headline reads, “The world’s richest 1% pollute more than the poorest two-thirds.”
The world’s richest 1 percent generated as much carbon emissions as the poorest two-thirds in 2019, according to a new Oxfam report that examines the uber-wealthy’s lavish lifestyles and investments in heavily polluting industries.
wapo.st/49Ke8W3
Americans can order four more free Covid tests from the government starting today —>
www.covid.gov/tests
