The relationship between technology, the climate emergency, and equity is ever emerging. Fresh perspectives are forming in various forms of creative practice, with literary discussions playing a particularly important role.
On this page, the *This Is Not A Drill* 2021-22 cohort shares their reflections on literary contributions that have profoundly affected their work.
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Richard Move's Reading Reflections
Monday, May 16, 2022
Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene is a “companion animal” that travels with me as I enter into the weblike network of site-specific creations, animated by the interconnected presences of environment, human, animal, plant, insect and object.
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Pedro Galvao Cesar de Oliveira's Reading Reflections
Monday, May 16, 2022
Instead of suggesting a primer on the climate emergency, I would rather tell you about the books and readings I currently have on my desk that examine the sociopolitical intersections between technology, equitable futures, and climate-resilience.
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Pato Hebert's Reading Reflections
Monday, May 16, 2022
I have read Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants many times over the years. But the fall of 2021 was the first occasion when I have taught it extensively.
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Karen Holmberg's Reading Reflections
Monday, May 16, 2022
The Man with the Compound Eyes, by Taiwanese author Wu Ming-Yi, has been a favorite of mine. I admire its merging of climate disaster, indigenous perspectives, scientific understanding of geoscience, and a surrealism stitched onto a lining of magical realism.
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