Sublime

Most of human history is irreparably lost to us. Our species, Homo sapiens, has existed for at least 200,000 years, but for most of that time we have next to no idea what was happening.

of imagination. It has succeeded beyond expectation in extracting and describing sequences from material processes: how walls collapse; how ditches fill with silt, how organic materials can be dated and used to describe environmental change, diet, disease and injury. But it cannot get to grips with empty space and time: the unknown months, weeks,

Linear, tunneled histories have supplied a vital justification for the sovereignty claims of the nation. Yet, an emergent field of circulatory histories reveals that histories are shared, and there are many other modes of affiliation with peoples, the commons and the natural world that may serve our goals much better today.