Volume 64

In this introduction, the authors lay out the problem of an environmental consciousness that is grounded in a logic of recuperability, one that foregrounds the environment as an “object” external to human experience. The introduction shows how discourses ...

If Anthropocene discourse considers environmental breakdown as a post-racial horizon in light of which the human might be reconceptualized as geological agent, this article turns to early twentieth-century environmental writer Mary Austin to identify a ...

Across discourses and genres, stories of climate change often follow a race-against-time plot, as if confronting environmental disaster meant accepting the terms of the disaster film genre. The objective of this article is to elucidate some of the ...

Plants and their cultivators play a privileged, if ambiguous, role in the recreation, maintenance, and transmission of cultural practices that settler colonialism believes to have definitively erased for having violently interrupted. Raising the question ...

Contemporary scholarship regards the acknowledgment of harm as an ethically necessary precondition for work on the environment. In this article, I show that the admission and subsequent management of harm have long been central to racial and colonial ...

This article considers a paradox that structures the internal logic of the ideology of improvement, a central justification for settler colonialism’s strategies of cultural and material dispossession. Far from establishing a limit to settler colonialism ...

This article connects Rachel Carson’s idea of what “seem[s] unchanged” to a specific point in psychoanalysis’s narrative of loss, where the tension between letting go of an object that is external (mourning) and the incorporation of the lost object (...

Despite its provenance in racial paradigms of colonial research, the notion of species has proved to be remarkably resilient and adaptable to post-racial frameworks of thought. Species has survived both the death of the subject and the cancellation of ...

Alfred Hitchcock’s admirers are fond of praising his work for being cinematically innovative. This article seeks to determine wherein his achievement in this regard lies. It begins by reflecting on the ways in which his movies harbor a form of “false ...