
language


Restoring Original Names in Places and People
Bridget McKenzie
27th November, 2019
Fourth post in Lost Lexicon series in run up to Remembrance of Lost Species Day: Bridget McKenzie, examines the ways people use words for the presence - and disappearance - of species

How to Say I Love You in Greenlandic
Nancy Campbell
20th November, 2019
Third post in our Lost Lexicon series: an extract from an artist book by Nancy Campbell, set in the Arctic, where the Greenlandic language is disappearing with the ice in the wake of climate change.

Vault of the Wordmonger
Nick Hunt
13th November, 2019
Second post the new series, Lost Lexicon is a short story by Nick Hunt, set in a damaged future world where words – locked away for years – are starting to re-emerge from deep beneath the earth. Image by Kahn & Selesnick.

The Earth Does Not Speak in Prose
Charlotte Du Cann
7th November, 2019
In this months'a new series, Lost Lexicon, Charlotte Du Cann speaks with Paul Kingsnorth about forging a language that can speak with the more-than-human world. With artwork by Katie Ione Craney.

In Search of a Lexicon for the Deep Core
Charlotte Du Cann
13th February, 2019
Charlotte Du Cann writes of the Underworld, mythos and Deep Adaptation

Conjuring Yew Trees and Mountains
Christos Galanis
21st August, 2017
You, my friend, are alone, because We, with words and pointing fingers, gradually make the...

No More Words for Snow
Nancy Campbell
29th October, 2016
And if the sun had not erased the tracks upon the ice, they would tell...

The Ecology of Language
Abbie Simmonds
11th November, 2015
This is not a new idea. The Buddha taught about the importance of right speech,...

The Anthropocene and Ozymandias
Dave Foreman
26th August, 2015
One of the reasons given today for renaming the Anthropocene is that we have so...

Here Be Dragons
Ann Lingard
7th April, 2014
“Are there dragons?” she asked. I said that there were not. “Have there ever been?”...

Man and the Natural World
Akshay Ahuja
12th January, 2012
I would give you some of the specifics, but unfortunately I have been realizing lately...