Edge Effects
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A digital magazine + podcast covering environmental and cultural change throughout human history from the Center for Culture, History, and Environment.📍 Madison, WI
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Today on Edge Effects Translation Tuesday, @katherinecheung.bsky.social ponders “plant blindness.” Performance arts, she suggests, may be just what we need to slow down enough to begin to appreciate the plant life around us. 👓 🌱
November 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Today on Edge Effects Translation Tuesday, @katherinecheung.bsky.social ponders “plant blindness.” Performance arts, she suggests, may be just what we need to slow down enough to begin to appreciate the plant life around us. 👓 🌱
Hoy, en el podcast Edge Effects, la exeditora jefe Bri Meyer conversa con la escritora y diseñadora @brebec.bsky.social sobre sus relatos y sus temas de género y destrucción ambiental. ¡Nuestro primer episodio bilingüe es todo lo que esperábamos y mucho más! 🔪📚
October 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Hoy, en el podcast Edge Effects, la exeditora jefe Bri Meyer conversa con la escritora y diseñadora @brebec.bsky.social sobre sus relatos y sus temas de género y destrucción ambiental. ¡Nuestro primer episodio bilingüe es todo lo que esperábamos y mucho más! 🔪📚
Happy Translation Tuesday! Today on Edge Effects, Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey and Tomás Pino translate
@monikaszuba.bsky.social's essay on deep time and the politics of decay. Can we grasp geologic change and plastic waste in our short lifespans?
@monikaszuba.bsky.social's essay on deep time and the politics of decay. Can we grasp geologic change and plastic waste in our short lifespans?
October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Happy Translation Tuesday! Today on Edge Effects, Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey and Tomás Pino translate
@monikaszuba.bsky.social's essay on deep time and the politics of decay. Can we grasp geologic change and plastic waste in our short lifespans?
@monikaszuba.bsky.social's essay on deep time and the politics of decay. Can we grasp geologic change and plastic waste in our short lifespans?
Happy Translation Tuesday! Today on Edge Effects, Nicolás Rueda Rey and Tomás Pino translate @monikaszuba.bsky.social's essay on deep time and the politics of decay. Can we understand geological change and plastic waste in our short lifespan?
October 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Happy Translation Tuesday! Today on Edge Effects, Nicolás Rueda Rey and Tomás Pino translate @monikaszuba.bsky.social's essay on deep time and the politics of decay. Can we understand geological change and plastic waste in our short lifespan?
Choose your next read/watch from the favorites of these brilliant thinkers on env. futures and futurity: @sgallini.bsky.social @jessicahurley.bsky.social @ceirr.bsky.social @scobrien.bsky.social @jpietruska.bsky.social Leida Fernández Prieto & Michael Rawson 🫶
September 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Choose your next read/watch from the favorites of these brilliant thinkers on env. futures and futurity: @sgallini.bsky.social @jessicahurley.bsky.social @ceirr.bsky.social @scobrien.bsky.social @jpietruska.bsky.social Leida Fernández Prieto & Michael Rawson 🫶
Benjamin Chin-Hung Kao is a Ph.D. student in Geography from Brazil and Taiwan at the UW-Madison. Kao’s doctoral project explores Transpacific settler colonial geographies of Pokémon and its worlds. 🐻 Read his full essay here: edgeeffects.net/bears-in-jap...
July 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Benjamin Chin-Hung Kao is a Ph.D. student in Geography from Brazil and Taiwan at the UW-Madison. Kao’s doctoral project explores Transpacific settler colonial geographies of Pokémon and its worlds. 🐻 Read his full essay here: edgeeffects.net/bears-in-jap...
The bears of popular Japanese-based video games, in particular, animate contemporary colonialism.
"Video games invite players to reenact the process of erasure through play. By simulating colonial history, players become active participants in its present."
"Video games invite players to reenact the process of erasure through play. By simulating colonial history, players become active participants in its present."
July 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The bears of popular Japanese-based video games, in particular, animate contemporary colonialism.
"Video games invite players to reenact the process of erasure through play. By simulating colonial history, players become active participants in its present."
"Video games invite players to reenact the process of erasure through play. By simulating colonial history, players become active participants in its present."
"Bear-related products are not a celebration of Ainu identity. Rather, the commercialization of Indigenous imagery facilitates the transformation of Ainu Lands into Hokkaido: culturally and economically."
July 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"Bear-related products are not a celebration of Ainu identity. Rather, the commercialization of Indigenous imagery facilitates the transformation of Ainu Lands into Hokkaido: culturally and economically."
The Indigenous Ainu people of Japan are imbued by artists and scholars "with bear-like characteristics, like hairiness, to emphasize their wildness. ... Western scholars have characterized Ainu as of the wild and threat to the wild, both bear-like and enemy to bears."
July 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The Indigenous Ainu people of Japan are imbued by artists and scholars "with bear-like characteristics, like hairiness, to emphasize their wildness. ... Western scholars have characterized Ainu as of the wild and threat to the wild, both bear-like and enemy to bears."
"Bears in Japanese popular culture are not just cute or kitschy. They accompany us as we experience haunting histories and presents of colonial violence."
July 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"Bears in Japanese popular culture are not just cute or kitschy. They accompany us as we experience haunting histories and presents of colonial violence."