Gratitude for our surroundings mixed with increasingly anxious and progressively depressed talks about injustice inflicted unevenly by a swiftly heating planet. You could do far worse for academic gatherings. Candle-lit feasts with local ingredients took our nights. We were spending the week together in Schloss Wartegg, a 16th century castle-turned-hotel atop sprawling English gardens with a view of the lake. I was lucky enough to be admitted to the University of Bern’s Transhumanities Summer School, a symposium that sends emerging scholars like myself to dialogue with distinguished academics. “Here” was Lake Constance, the Switzerland side. As the water closed over my head, I remembered the sense of a sentence, the exact wording of which I would look up later: “Submerged, from below, seeing out from underwater, how do we think about the complexity of ecology, humanity, and the conditions of other beings from the fish-eye point of view?”(1) How fitting, I thought, after our morning, to come straight here. I stripped to my swimsuit, walked the length of the dock, and, steeling myself, slipped into the cold lake.
(I wasn’t joking.) I was eager to return to it, to myself. I said this aloud to those around me as if I were joking. The idea I encountered repeatedly was that for the humanities to become truly environmental, it might take a total re-structuring of the disciplines. The aim is to explore that term-“environmental humanities”-by talking with some of the people who are shaping its meaning.įor this initial essay, I reflect on my own experience this summer as the writer-in-residence at the University of Bern’s Transhumanities Summer School, themed “The Ecological Imperative.” There, I met artists and scholars who were similarly concerned with how the humanities might play its part in progressive climate action.
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In this series of essays and interviews, Distributaries spotlights scholars, instructors, and students engaged with public-facing environmental humanities projects across the City University of New York. ¹ Observation from my experience and from looking at questions on this site.The Center for the Humanities Distributaries Submerging Within the Environmental Humanities January 05, 2023 So either way, before playing this race it is a good idea to talk to the fellow players and make sure they are comfortable with whatever solution you and your DM are ready to agree on. On the other hand, if risk of drying out will be real for you, it will inconvenience the whole party, not just you.
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So only way to make sure it won't happen, is to have a deal with DM during session 0.īy the way, if your DM will agree to it, other players may be jaded that you got some goodies for free and they didn't. It will be a problem for you to solve in-game, and you will need to change solutions once in a while. If your DM will decide that getting wet is important to balance out the goodies you got, like water breathing, skill proficiencies, save advantages etc, no matter what game mechanics you will try to use, you will have no guarantees and any DM worth his salt will find ways to make the risk real for you.
That is indeed a common approach¹, and I dare a guess that's why 5e got rid of negative racial modifiers to stats, as they were used with classes for which they didn't matter anyway.
What you are trying to do, is to play a race with all its strength, but avoid its drawback instead of embracing it.
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