Can AI be shaped responsibly? “The industry I work in is drawing down two commons at once – the inheritance of human attention and the body of the world that holds it – and naming the result intelligence,” writes Gustaf Palm. Palm grapples with the contradictions of the artificial intellige
The Memory of Fire Humans are not the only species that work with fire, yet we are the only ones who have learned to borrow from the matter of deep time, releasing ancient carbon formed over millions of years into the future. According to environmental historian Stephen J. Pyne, we are living in t
Food as a ritual for cultural resistance Amidst violence and memories of conflict in the Deep South, communities continue to sustain themselves through recipes and rituals borrowing from the land. Families still seal their fermentation jars the morning after a bombing. An herbal healing practice
A stream of consciousness flows from the Earth, quenching the thirst of material and immaterial worlds. In constant flux, it permeates a mother’s womb, a buried seed, a bird’s song, and a breaking storm. The word “consciousness” comes from the Latin “conscius” (co
In this conversation for Sacred Ecologies, Singapore-based artist Alvin Ng reflects on a practice shaped by myth, philosophy, and an intuitive engagement with the natural world. Working through photography, his images unfold as layered narratives where past and present, visible and unseen, begin to
For Rethinking Climate, Anna Borrie explores climate change as a crisis of imagination, reality, and human exceptionalism. Drawing from different ideologies, she questions the idea of nature as something separate from us, for climate change ultimately reveals our entanglement within planetary system