“Sridevi and her relatives collected nine types of Dioscorea tubers; some extended deep underground. The ease and flow of the work, and the general lack of rules governing the way spouses cooperated in doing this job, struck me.” —Nurit Bird-David, …
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Murder, Psychedelics & The Primal Anarchist
by Steve Kirk
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
a review of The Cull of Personality: Ayahuasca, Colonialism, and the Death of a Healer by Kevin Tucker. Black and Green Press, Blackandgreenpress.org, 2019
The Logic of the Telescope
by Steve Kirk
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
Last July, the so-called United States celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing while another fascination with space was playing out badly. It was with zero irony that the supposed “giant leap for mankind” was recognized while …
The Continuing Colonialism of Climate Change Solutions
by Steve Kirk
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
Climate change, global warming, the undeniable and irreversible global-scale reconfiguration of global chemistry, from the land, to the water, to the sky, we are awash in a multitude of changes. Each one compounds and codevelops with the other crises of …
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