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In Black Ecologies of Zone A, Ayasha Guerin examines how the intertwined forces of colonialism, racial capitalism, and environmental transformation produced New York City’s coastal flood zones. Seen through the lens of Black ecologies, flooding is not a natural disaster, but a condition deliberately imposed through historical processes of landmaking, labor exploitation, and ecological disruption. Drawing on a range of resources like environmental and labor histories, law, archaeology, and memoir, they trace how centuries of settlement transformed wetlands, waterways, and shorelines into sites of extraction, enclosure, and vulnerability. However, Guerin also highlights waterfront spaces as sites of fugitivity, mutual aid, and abolitionist organizing where Black and Indigenous communities forge alternative relations of care and survival. Engaging contemporary artists alongside historical archives, Guerin foregrounds creative practice as a method for interpreting and reimagining socio-ecological histories, calling for relational repair grounded in ecological remediation, decolonization, and interspecies care.

The classic television show The Twilight Zone explored the possibilities inhering in the ordinary. A Twilight Zone episode moved us by being poignant and intimate, rambunctious or thought provoking. But whether it takes place on an asteroid, in a city pool room, or in the backwoods, it will usually convey both a folklorist’s eye for detail and the born raconteur’s sense of pace. Rod Serling, the show’s originator, main scriptwriter, and artistic director, knew how much burden he could place on his rhetorical and dramatic gifts. Deservedly celebrated as a pioneer fiction writer for television, Serling always grounded his work in the human condition: he wrote movingly about history and loyalty, the grip of everyday reality, and the dangers of both forgetting about one’s ghosts and giving them the upper hand.

• Intuition vs. rational thought
• Left brain vs. right brain
• Explicit vs. implicit learning
• Novice vs. master
• Spoken vs. signed languages
• Emotion vs. reasoning