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A dual presentation of work by Alicja Kwade and Agnes Martin, curated by Arne Glimcher, opens at Pace’s Los Angeles gallery this month.

There is an element of the unexpected in the twinning of fiction and ecology. A sense of unease of sorts exists in the pairing together of fiction, a form of narrative that is untrue, with the imminent ecological disaster, an environmental inevitability that is true.

This article will be released in full online February 14, 2022. Across the humanities and the social sciences, critical attention is being given to the nonhuman…

Point of no return There needs to be a shift in the way we analyse global warming and think about climate change January 18, 2021 Year 2020, tying in with 2016, has been the hottest year on record with the Earth’s average temperature increase being 1.02 degrees Celsius above the baseline pre-industrial temperatures — a number that is currently accelerating by 0.2 degrees every decade. But what environmentalists are most fearful of is that despite the slowdown in economic activity owing to t...

summary One of the fifty most influential living philosophers, a “self-promoting charlatan” (Brian Leiter), and the orchestrator of an “online orgy of stupidity” (Ray Brassier). In Skirmishes: With Friends, Enemies, and Neutrals, Graham Harman responds with flair and wit to some of his best-known critics and fellow travelers. Pulling no punches, Harman gives a masterclass in philosophical argumentation by dissecting, analyzing, and countering their criticism, be it from the Huss...