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Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás Beginning in the late 1860s, the decade that it took to construct the Suez Canal, photographs depicting its feats of engineering circulated across the world. Sold to travelers as souvenirs, featured in Le Monde, and later exhibited at the 1889 Paris world fair, they enshrined on paper the industrial monumentality of the dredgers that excavated earth into sea. The Ever Given provided a rare glimpse into global markets, whose workings are typically invisible—dissolved in the abstract, numerical, quasi-magical relations of capital flows. As publicized images...

Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds. Let’s take as a starting point that “the Earth is moving yet again.” It is shifting, unstable, reactive; it’s different one year, or minute, to the next. In an age of rising seas and mass extinctions, the point hardly needs proving. The quote comes from the introduction to  Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth, a tome-sized catalog published in 2020 to accompany an exhibition at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. The philosopher Bruno Latour and the artist/curator Peter Weibel are its organizer and editors....

The Real Cost of Putting Off Your Doctor's Appointments During Covid Richard Laliberte At first they told us not to come. Early in the pandemic, health authorities steered us clear of doctors and hospitals to help flatten the curve and relieve ICUs. We may have listened too well. Emergency room visits for non-Covid reasons tanked by 42 percent between January and May 2020. And by the middle of the year, roughly 41 percent of U. S. adults had avoided some form of medical care, according to a study in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The figures were even higher for Blac...

Faculty association files complaints against Medicine Hat College over contract talk tactics Poll Do you agree with police and health authorities shutting down, fencing off Grace Life Church near Edmonton? Yes The faculty association at Medicine Hat College has filed labour board complaints stating the institution’s board of governors is attempting to undermine its authority as the two sides discuss a new contract. The association filed seven complaints stating the employer had improper conversations with its members, was coercive and directed them not to engage the association on employmen...

Fossil Fuel Companies Are Job Killers New analysis shows the number of workers required per project will soon fall by 20 to 30 percent, even without a transition to renewables. ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images An oil industry consultant discusses the state of the oil fracking industry on the Bakken Shale Formation. As Joe Biden’s climate-scented infrastructure proposal kicks off, the fossil fuel industry has one tried and true message to fall back on: They stand for jobs, prosperity, and the working man. (That’s why the tax hikes, regulation, and subsidies for renewables Biden proposed would b...