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Incantational Contaminations / Part One: Demon Bowl Ecology
Miriam Saperstein
Following the ecology and history of the extraction of demon bowls, tracing how they fueled the expansion of the University of Pennsylvania and similar projects across the so-called US.
Without Origins, We Are Sacred: An Interview on Black Tobacco Seedkeeping
hannah jo king
Tracing the interconnected genealogies of Black family and native Tobacco through ancestral channeling, interview, storytelling, ritual, and Black feminist scholarship.
Where the Ghost Cloud Meets the Lake
Liam CU and Maya Björnson
Collaborative poetry process using the Manona Method, a futurist visioning tool, using seed-words to bloom language around radial wheel structures.
On the Ground
Zoe Morrison
An essay tracing asphalt from ancient building material to modern-day petro-chemical extraction landscapes.
TMITBD / ACT I: Deep Fragments
Kelvin Vu
Three Mile Island (TMI) was the site of the worst commercial nuclear accident in US history. ACT I maps the fragments of its context.
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