Rebecca Laurent
@thebexxx.bsky.social
houseplant enthusiast cosplaying as an academic ("I study culture, power, and nature", totally)
Managing Editor of @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social 🌻
Managing Editor of @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social 🌻
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PLEASE SHARE: Edge Effects is delighted to announce the theme for our 2026 special series: Botanical Imaginations! Drafts are due February 15, 2026. Everyone is welcome to submit! Read more & apply: edgeeffects.net/botanical-im... 🌱🌳🌾🌴🌵🌻
December 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
PLEASE SHARE: Edge Effects is delighted to announce the theme for our 2026 special series: Botanical Imaginations! Drafts are due February 15, 2026. Everyone is welcome to submit! Read more & apply: edgeeffects.net/botanical-im... 🌱🌳🌾🌴🌵🌻
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Today on the Edge Effects podcast, former managing editor Bri Meyer talks with writer and designer @brebec.bsky.social about her short stories and their themes of gender and environmental destruction. Our first ever bilingual episode is everything we hoped it would be and more! 🔪📚
Dark Fiction, Sinister Reality: A Conversation with Brenda Becette
Brenda Becette talks about the role of fiction in a our dystopic reality. Becette's short stories avenges women, children, and environment.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Today on the Edge Effects podcast, former managing editor Bri Meyer talks with writer and designer @brebec.bsky.social about her short stories and their themes of gender and environmental destruction. Our first ever bilingual episode is everything we hoped it would be and more! 🔪📚
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¡Feliz martes de traducción! Hoy en Edge Effects, Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey y Tomás Pino traducen el ensayo de
@monikaszuba.bsky.social sobre el tiempo profundo y las políticas de la descomposición. ¿Podemos comprender el cambio geológico y los residuos plásticos en nuestra corta vida? 🦴⏳
@monikaszuba.bsky.social sobre el tiempo profundo y las políticas de la descomposición. ¿Podemos comprender el cambio geológico y los residuos plásticos en nuestra corta vida? 🦴⏳
El Asunto del Tiempo
Monika Szuba pregunta cómo los humanos lidian con el tiempo profundo a través del examen de la vida fosilizada, la vida contemporánea y la vida sintética.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
¡Feliz martes de traducción! Hoy en Edge Effects, Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey y Tomás Pino traducen el ensayo de
@monikaszuba.bsky.social sobre el tiempo profundo y las políticas de la descomposición. ¿Podemos comprender el cambio geológico y los residuos plásticos en nuestra corta vida? 🦴⏳
@monikaszuba.bsky.social sobre el tiempo profundo y las políticas de la descomposición. ¿Podemos comprender el cambio geológico y los residuos plásticos en nuestra corta vida? 🦴⏳
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Today on Edge Effects, former managing editor Bri Meyer explores the multispecies assemblages that built U.S. cities: how horses were mechanized to perform "cyborg" labor, how these multispecies relationships changed in the automobile era, and the lasting equine footprints in Madison, WI. 🐴🤖
Cyborg Horses, Urban Growth and the Changing Nature of Labor
Archives from Madison, Wisconsin show the role of mechanized horses, or equine "cyborg" labor, in the growth of U.S. cities.
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October 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Today on Edge Effects, former managing editor Bri Meyer explores the multispecies assemblages that built U.S. cities: how horses were mechanized to perform "cyborg" labor, how these multispecies relationships changed in the automobile era, and the lasting equine footprints in Madison, WI. 🐴🤖
"As divisiveness intensifies in the U.S. and around the world, may this project bear witness to the beauty and power of artistic collaboration." Thank you to the huge team of people who made this exhibit possible!
Today on Edge Effects, poet Ann Fisher-Wirth collaborates with photographer Wilfried Raussert and a team of translators led by Sarli Mercado and @salianoche.bsky.social. This novel "gathering of voices" explores the interconnectedness of people and nature in urban environments. 🎨 📷
Visuals and Verse Across Borders
Photography of street art across the Americas inspires ekphrastic poems and translations in this unique, cross-national collaboration.
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September 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"As divisiveness intensifies in the U.S. and around the world, may this project bear witness to the beauty and power of artistic collaboration." Thank you to the huge team of people who made this exhibit possible!
"How do you document the memories of the earth? What does the Anthropocene look like? How does one represent a change in the air, the wind? These photographers explore how to represent the unrepresentable: the absence of water, the presence of air, and the feeling of home." 👇💙
Today on Edge Effects, Angelica Modabber discusses her exhibition, "Water and Oil." Through stunning photographs of peripheral spaces and faces, she explores the topography of memory in Iran: how ecological change, exile, and diaspora is ossified in the land and its inhabitants. 👣 📷
Snapshots of the Anthropocene in Iran
These photographers capture the complex layers of memory, ecological change, identity, and diaspora in the contemporary landscape of Iran.
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September 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"How do you document the memories of the earth? What does the Anthropocene look like? How does one represent a change in the air, the wind? These photographers explore how to represent the unrepresentable: the absence of water, the presence of air, and the feeling of home." 👇💙
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Today on Edge Effects, scholars from a range of disciplines share books/films they are most excited to teach this year on environmental futures and futurity. Their gift for our present, these recommendations span from science fiction to documentary, speculative poetry to historical exhibit. 📚💭
Faculty Recommendations: Environmental Futures and Futurity
Faculty recommend books, films, and exhibits that critically examine the construction, utility, and politics of environmental futures.
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September 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Today on Edge Effects, scholars from a range of disciplines share books/films they are most excited to teach this year on environmental futures and futurity. Their gift for our present, these recommendations span from science fiction to documentary, speculative poetry to historical exhibit. 📚💭
"People knew about the iconic trinity of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold... But here were Indian thinkers who are saying interesting, unusual, prescient things about human attitudes and relationships to nature."
What a privilege to welcome Dr. Guha to the podcast!
What a privilege to welcome Dr. Guha to the podcast!
Today on the Edge Effects podcast, Laleh Ahmad speaks with Ramachandra Guha about his new book, Speaking with Nature (2024). They explore how identity and knowledge politics shape environmentalism and environmental history in India and around the world. 🇮🇳☀️ #envhum #envhist
Knowledge Politics and the Making of Indian Environmental History: A Conversation with Ramachandra Guha - Edge Effects
Ramachandra Guha discusses his new book, Speaking with Nature (2024), and the history of environmental thought in India.
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September 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"People knew about the iconic trinity of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold... But here were Indian thinkers who are saying interesting, unusual, prescient things about human attitudes and relationships to nature."
What a privilege to welcome Dr. Guha to the podcast!
What a privilege to welcome Dr. Guha to the podcast!
"Imagine how much more hopeless the industrial food system must appear to these cattle, and yet they still choose to be interested in their own lives! Perhaps all I can wish is to stay engaged with this world, even when change feels impossible, even when the choices before me are laughable." 🫶
Today on Edge Effects, Mia Werger's poetic fieldnotes and stunning drawings bring a powerful conclusion to our Companion Species series. While befriending feedlot cattle, Werger reflects on the more-than-human experience, surviving amidst hopelessness, and dreaming of a free tomorrow. 🐄🖤
Do Cows Appreciate Poetry? And Other Musings On Our Bovine Friends
These poetic fieldnotes on befriending feedlot cattle reflect on our broken food system and life under constraint.
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July 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"Imagine how much more hopeless the industrial food system must appear to these cattle, and yet they still choose to be interested in their own lives! Perhaps all I can wish is to stay engaged with this world, even when change feels impossible, even when the choices before me are laughable." 🫶
“Their humanity erased by the conditions of their life and death, these small artifacts are a powerful reminder: they parented, sang, and prayed, like anyone.”
What a powerful, timely exhibit!
What a powerful, timely exhibit!
Today on Edge Effects, Christopher Conz and Christina Balch mesh archival documents with art to humanize the migrant mining workers of southern Africa. Their exhibit draws attention to the systems of extractive capitalism that demonize migrants around the world. 📜🎨
Humanizing Migrants and Miners of Southern Africa - Edge Effects
This multimedia exhibit aims to humanize the stories of migrant mining workers of Southern Africa using archives and art.
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July 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
“Their humanity erased by the conditions of their life and death, these small artifacts are a powerful reminder: they parented, sang, and prayed, like anyone.”
What a powerful, timely exhibit!
What a powerful, timely exhibit!
"We ought to take these libertarians seriously when they express the desire to create new societies, especially as they gain the political clout to reshape ours." 🙌 you're amazing @poisoniv3y.bsky.social
Today on Edge Effects, @poisoniv3y.bsky.social draws parallels between contemporary libertarian visions and oceanic colonialism of the 19th century. Seasteading may seem like futuristic science fiction, but Robert Stevenson's The Ebb-Tide offers grave warnings about how this old idea plays out. 🛳️🏖️
Is Seasteading Another Word for Colonialism?
Libertarian's interest in seasteading parallels nineteenth century oceanic colonialism, as represented by Robert Stevenson’s The Ebb-Tide.
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July 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"We ought to take these libertarians seriously when they express the desire to create new societies, especially as they gain the political clout to reshape ours." 🙌 you're amazing @poisoniv3y.bsky.social