Jacob J. Erickson

Given the amount of information we process on a day-to-day basis, paying attention to minutiae is difficult. The small things pass us by; we miss detail and texture. Given news and ecological change…

Slow violence. That’s how Rob Nixon, scholar of environmental humanities, describes the changes inflicted by a warming world. Many ecological harms occur over expanded senses of human time, often…

When strangers find out that I’m from North Dakota, I get a few stock responses. People will ask me if I’m from Fargo (I’m not; I’m from an area called South Prairie, rural Minot) and then they might…