Take to the Field(s)
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Agriculture
Winter 2024
Breaking sedimented divisions between rural and urban, this issue centres agricultural imaginaries and human-soil relations that challenge us to rethink our understanding of agriculture, its relation to histories of colonization, and the futures of agroecology, as well as our connection to land itself.
Cover: Mériol Lehmann
Les foins
Photo: Marine Fleury, courtesy of the artist
Editorial
Feature
The Politics of Planting in Occupied Territories
Uncommoning Agriculture
How to Give Land Back to Itself?
From Appropriating Territory to Valuing Agricultural Land
Soil Memory, Seed Song: The Pollinator Gardens of Finding Flowers
Art Labor: Communal Land Protection in the Face of Industrial Extraction
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Tourism
Spring Summer 2024
Because it is essential for it to be open to the world, art is particularly affected by concerns related to planetary travel. From a position at the intersection of contemporary art, leisure, ecology, and destination culture, Esse no. 111 observes artists’ and critical thinkers’ strategies for revisiting the very notion of tourism. Although the harmful impacts of the tourism industry are beyond question, the thematic section avoids falling prey to tourismphobia and simply pointing out its failures. Rather, this issue offers a guided tour of situations and places where art and tourism converge.