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Happy Birthday, Johnathan

July 3, 2020 by Museum Fatigue

Johnathan the tortoise turned 188 yesterday. The oldest living land animal—his life has spanned the deaths of every animal on the planet. The world into which he was born is unimaginable to us except as fiction. To put this in perspective, when he was born there were only 24 United States and the Civil War was still thirty years in the future. The last ship bringing enslaved people to the US wouldn’t set sail for another 28 years and the […]

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Things to Remember From the COVID Spring #5: Astronauts

March 25, 2020 by Museum Fatigue

For over two years I have taken a deep dive into the literature on the Anthropocene—the climate crisis, human/non-human/inhuman worlds, and the issues of human culture’s effects on the Earth’s biosphere. It has been a fascinating yet dark slog through some pretty terrifying and important stuff. I began this semester very excited to work through a selection of highlights from my readings with our senior anthropology majors. The syllabus I put together charts a journey through the deep time of […]

Categories: COVID Spring • Tags: Anthropocene, classroom experience

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