Modern Fossils: What Objects Tell Us About the Anthropocene / David Rooney Future Remains is a collection of essays that explore how objects might narrate increasing human dominance over the environment and the lessons we can glean from that shift in perspective. What would a museum of the present look like? What items and memories […]
Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale by Deborah R. Coen. (2018)
Climate science communication suffers from a problem of scale: how to accurately describe superhuman events without swallowing up local variations and human agency in the process. Climate in Motion offers a fascinating historical account of how scientists in the Austro-Hungarian Empire held local and global climate phenomenon in a productive tension. In so doing, it […]