Deep Time Reading List
As of the opening of Deep Time Lab at the UNM Art Museum on February 8, 2019, all of these titles will be available for visitors to read in the upper gallery until the installation closes on May 11, 2019. If you are unable to attend the Deep Time Lab exhibition, each title listed is linked to Amazon so that, if you would like, you can purchase a copy and read along with us.
All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
Winona LaDuke
Annals of the Former World
John McPhee
Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies
Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin
Back on the Fire: Essays
Gary Snyder
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Janine M. Benyus
Binti
Nnedi Okorafor
Black Diamond Dust
Jesse Birch and Will Holder
The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline
Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton
The Children of Men
P.D. James
Circling Back
Gary Holthaus
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
Joy Harjo
The Control of Nature
John McPhee
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough
Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia
Gregory Benford
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America
Alan Berger
Ecologies of Power: Countermapping the Logistical Landscapes and Military Geographies of the U.S. Department of Defense
Pierre Bélanger and Alexander Arroyo
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
adrienne maree brown
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit
The Future of Life
Edward O. Wilson
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape
James Howard Kunstler
Give Me My Father’s Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo
Kenn Harper
Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
Heather Rogers
The Greatest Disasters of the 20th Century
Frances Kennett
The Half-Life of History
Mark Klett
How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America
Jon Wiener
Hyperboreal
Joan Naviyuk Kane
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
Timothy Morton
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape
Brian Hayes
Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges
Landscape and Power
W.J.T. Mitchell
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization
Roy Scranton
The Metabolic Landscape: Perception, Practice and the Energy Transition
Gina Glover, Jessica Rayner, and Geof Rayner
Milk Black Carbon
Joan Naviyuk Kane
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today!
Chris Carlsson
Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places
John R. Stilgoe
The Pine Island Paradox: Making Connections in a Disconnected World
Kathleen Dean Moore
The Practice of the Wild
Gary Snyder
The Politics of History
Howard Zinn
The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Scenes in America Deserta
Reyner Banham
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Donna J. Haraway
The Tangled Bank: Writings from Orion
Robert Michael Pyle
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Naomi Klein
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
Manuel De Landa
Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands
Andrew Stuhl
The Unreal and the Real
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wake of the Unseen Object: Travels through Alaska’s Native Landscapes
Tom Kizzia
Waste Land
David T. Hanson
The Way to Rainy Mountain
N. Scott Momaday
Wilderness to Wasteland
David T. Hanson
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman