I was asked to write this piece in late December for the January issue of the Harriet blog The Reading List, a feature of Poetry magazine’s Editors’ Blog, as I had Celan prose translations in the January issue: No matter what else has gone wrong with this year (and much did, obviously, & I won’t dwell on it!), it is going out with a bang: the mailman just handed me today, Tuesday, … Read more Reading List 2016
On Friday 20 January, Donald Trump was inaugurated as 45th President of the United States. On this issue Ottmar Edenhofer, chief economist of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Professor at Technische Universität Berlin: „As the new president of the United States, Donald Trump could be quite successful in the short term, namely because … Read more Potsdam Institute for Climate on Trump
Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 13/01/2017 66 million years ago, the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs started the ascent of the mammals, ultimately resulting in humankind’s reign on Earth. Climate scientists now reconstructed how tiny droplets of sulfuric acid formed high up in the air after the well-known impact of a large asteroid and blocking the sunlight for several years, had a profound influence … Read more How the darkness and the cold killed the dinosaurs
All videos by Pierre Joris — except the Pierre Joris one, which is by Nicole Peyrafitte .