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Journal Back Issues
Back issues of Terra Nova: Nature & Culture are available directly through MIT Press Journals, the hardcopy publisher.
Review back issues below, then order directly from the MIT Press website:
Vol. 1
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Vol. 1
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Is anyone ever really alone? David Robertson at the Nowhere Cafe. Mariana Ferreira in the Amazon. Jaron Lanier wants to turn us all into giant squid, and more.... |
Vol. 1
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D.L. Pughe on the philosphy of clean. David Appelbaum finds the riddles of sages in the forays of a child. Paul Vanderbilt illustrates history. Zeese Papanikolas finds a volcano in Vegas, and more.... |
Vol. 1
No. 4 |
Wild City |
Gustaf Sobin finds ancient traces. Barnet Schecter mourns the loss of an urban garden. Robert Yaro and Tony Hiss exlpain why we need planning. Sprawl-Mart RIP! Sarah Mecklem posters history on the ruins of a luxurious past. Jon Schueler paints the clouds of everywhere. Harrison Rue explains how cities can be made ever more real, and Tim Franke finds all the townscapes we’ll ever need. Jeff Greenwald tracks down Paul Bowles, still hiding out in Tangier. |
Vol. 2
No. 1 |
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Are there predators in paradise? Boria Sax thinks there are all kinds of cages out there. Britta Jaschinski’s photographs give animals a chance. Vassilis Vassilikos shadows a white bear through the streets of Athens. Diderot writes eloquently of landscape painting without setting foot in a gallery. Yi-Fu Tuan talks about the leap from the cosmos to the hearth. Peter Goin finds even the beach to be a changing fiction. Erazim Kohik warns us all against nostalgia. Paul Ryan believes that video can take us back to the world. Melissa Madenski writes of grief and the loss of names. And Peter Wessel Zapffe finds even feline nature to be a sign of futility. |
Vol. 2
No. 2 |
Borderline |
The broder has never been easier to cross. Rick Bass and Ray Meeks travel to a country with a grizzly history. Bron Taylor reports on the life and supposed death of radical ecotage. Charles Bowden and Duog Dubois visit Tuna Country; Diane Hall and Lyn Hejinian blend word and image in clouds and light. Daniel Rothenberg lets migrant workers tell their own tales. Jonathan Levi wonders how much a man can share in a woman’s changes. Robert Grudin takes us to the Maple Street of the future. We all know what it’s like to cross to the other side. The problem is forgetting enough to come back. |
Vol. 2
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Music from Nature |
A special issue including a 74-minute audio CD. David James Duncan stumbles upon a concert in the wilderness, while Eric Salzman looks for the song of the hermit thrush. Max Rouquette tells of a magical oboe that could make even the devil dance. David Dunn describes a life in sound art. Sam Shepard writes about baby wild animals. R. Murray Schafer constructs an encanted sound forest. On the disk, David Lumsdaine presents the legendary pied butcherbirds of Australia. Steve Feld offers the lift-up-over-sounding of the Kaluli of New Guinea. Chris Hughes plays a blackbird song, slower and slower, until it can finally be heard for what it is. Jaron Lanier plucks cactus needles in the Arizona desert. Michael Pestel jams with ground pigeons. Brian Eno maps a place no one knows. Hildegard of Bingen’s sacred breezes are transformed by Andra McCartney. David Toop ignites a future jungle. Douglas Quin and David Rothenberg gnash their teetch with the walrus. Coo coo ca joo. John Luther Adams circles the winds. Ludwig van Beethoven cannot be overlooked, especially as played by Russell Sherman. Sarah Peebles has premonitions of a world where nature and technology meet in unclassifiable sounds. Louis Sarno and Bernie Krause reveal the sonic ecology of Babenzele Pygmies. Toru Takemitsu gives silence the freedom to breathe. Read it and listen. |
Vol. 2
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Ray Isle finds the true meaning of the words “wild turkey.” Amy Knisley finally learns when trash is trash. Teh art of Georgia Marsh and Julianne Swartz make the art of nature ever less obvious. Frederick Franck shuns the gallery scene to make sacred beauty out of his home and land. David Petersen breaks the silence between predator and prey. Steve Chase explains why Paul Shepard thinks we’re still in the Pleistocene. Still home after all these years. But watch out for that turkey. |
Vol. 3
No. 1 |
Reckoning |
The reckoning is the time to count up, take stock of all that has happened. Mariana Ferreira picks a life out of a broken mirror. Barnet Schecter from his first novel. Frank Bergon wanders through Chiapas. Ann Forbes finds the sacred valley of Khembalung. Leonard Freed photographs man and beast, while Doug Thorpe samples Dante’s drink. Virlana Tkacz creates Mongolian ecotheater, and Tom Vanderbilt wonders if there is a there anywhere. David Rothenberg trapped in the forest with Finn Alnaes. Poetry by Steve Miles, Eva Salzman, and Ray Gonzalez. |
Vol. 3
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Way Back When |
A scientist cut down the oldest living tree on Earth! Michael P. Cohen tells the full story at last. The last dinosaur book? W.J.T. Mitchell has written it. Kartik Shanker drives a bus from smoke-stack to nowhere. D.L. Pughe ponders how missed opportunities give away to sorrow and regret. Ed Mooney drifts with birds or currents of thought and memory. Errol Morris assures us no animals have been harmed, and Janet Culbertson paints the ones that have. Ivan Sigal sees the war-ravaged lands of Chechnya open to tomorrow. John L. Keane flows through the Salt River. John P. O’Grady still sees ghosts in the waterfall. The future is more protected than the past. Remember how clear it looked, way back when? |
Vol. 3
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Michael Tobias sets the romantic stage for this yearning for pure nature. Pramod Parajuli points out that in Nepal, things are not so simple. Sahotra Sarkar wants the forst for the trees in complex India, and Philip Cafaro and Monish Verma argue that wilderness is needed even where people are pitted against the tiger. Evan Eisenberg thinks a jazz attitude ought to help us all move to the grooves of the earth, and Jonathan Willard offers lush images of this fluid dynamic. Zeese Papanikolas traces the sources of our fascination with the wild in the silences of a nineteenth-century American painting, and Antonio Diegues questions the simplicity of that wild vision. Edie Meidav shows that luck isn’t necessarily random or unintended in her tale of colonial Ceylon, Dan Imhoff tells us why one former sportswear executive is buying up huge tracts of Chilean rain forest, and more.... |
Vol. 3
No. 4 |
Mystery |
All things cover up some mystery. Carole Koda dances along the border of it. Jerry Martien sifts throgh dunes of memory looking for it. Peter Coyote recalls a time when it flowered right on teh edge. Lorraine Anderson traces it back to the source. Lew Welch took it with him. David Robertson guides the reader there. Gwen Head casts some doubt on the matter. Gary Snyder remembers the mystery is bigger than the Alamo. Dawn Marano seeks it where the waters have receded, John Lane where they rise. Clay Morgan jumps right into the middle of it. Joe Mills keeps a sharp eye for it. Guard the mysteries. Constantly reveal them. |
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