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END TALES: RECOUNTING AND RETRIEVING THE ALTERED WORLDS

In a course collaboration between Melissa H Potter, Columbia College Chicago, and Larisa Jasarevic, University of Chicago, students explore diverse modes of recounting and responding to the contemporary world on the brink of disaster, and ask, might we revalue the planted world and our place in it through the hand papermaking process? A "thinking through making" experiment. 

This page has been updated with several of the course readings, which viewers may find helpful in the 2026 climate crisis context.

• Foster, John. 2015. After Sustainability: Denial, Hope, Retrieval. New York: Routledge.

• Nancy, Jean-Luc. 2015. After Fukushima: The Equivalence of Catastrophes. Translated by Charlotte Mandell. New York: Fordham.

• Tsing, Anna. 2014. Blasted Landscapes (and the Gentle Arts of Mushroom Picking). In Multispecies Salon. Edited by Ebsen Kirksey, 87-110. Durham: Duke University Press.