Emergence Magazine

Mar 21, 2024 | emergencemagazine.org | Jenny Odell

Writer Jenny Odell is an Oakland-based artist, writer, and educator. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Paris Review, The Believer, McSweeney’s, and Sierra Magazine. She is the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, a New York Times bestseller; and Saving Time: Discovering Life Beyond the Clock.

Mar 14, 2024 | emergencemagazine.org | Lily Kelting

Writer Lily Kelting is an assistant professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Flame University in Pune, India. She is currently writing an academic book about the revival of heritage foods around the world, interweaving examples from the US South, Nordic region, and Western India. Sections of this research have been published in Food, Culture and Society, Southern Quarterly, and Paragrana.

Mar 6, 2024 | emergencemagazine.org | César Rodríguez-Garavito

The story of more-than-human rights is one of reconnection. At a time when so many of us are feeling the deep loneliness of the human condition in the Anthropocene, speaking about nature in the moral language of rights is an attempt to respectfully reconnect with the living and breathing Earth. The discourse of rights is by no means the only or the most appropriate language for building that bridge. But it is one of the most compelling narratives about connection that we have at our disposal.

Feb 8, 2024 | emergencemagazine.org | Jessica Bishopp

Director Jessica Bishopp is an award-winning director and documentary filmmaker whose work explores subcultures, myth, and our connection to place. Her short film Puffling premiered at SXSW and won the Oscar Qualifying Jury Award for Documentary at Aspen Shortsfest; another of her short films, Skyward, premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and was shortlisted for a Grierson Award.

Feb 1, 2024 | emergencemagazine.org | Elizabeth Rush

Writer Elizabeth Rush is the author of The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, The Guardian, Harpers, Granta, Orion, and others.