Zach Schrank

Sociologist, IUSB; 9th generation Hoosier living in the

[Zach Schrank @Thermocene]

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce, third as a malevolent and deranged specter haunting the corridors of time.

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

until the day i die i will never understand how this wasn’t the end of it

[Zach Schrank @Thermocene]

The Liminal companion book, Indiana Transformations: Human Impacts on the Hoosier Landscape, will be published by IU Press in February 2025. 224 pages with 169 photographs.

[Zach Schrank @Thermocene]

We faced a double menace, in the subcultures that were ringing the alarm bells: the danger itself, which filled us with dread, and laid atop it the weight of its cloak of invisibility - a gaslighting that was binding us to a grim future. - Lydia Millet

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«When you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It's pain only for others.

It's the same thing when you are stupid»

— Richard Feynman

[Zach Schrank @Thermocene]

It’s estimated that in 2023 the heat content in the upper two thousand metres of the oceans increased by at least nine zettajoules. For comparison’s sake, the world’s annual energy consumption amounts to about 0.6 zettajoules.

[Elizabeth Kolbert @ElizKolbert]

Are "the prior data are no longer predictive because the system has changed? I can’t rule that out, and that would obviously be very concerning.”https://t.co/e69MVCfaGf

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

“Fundamentally a second Trump term could mean the end of American democracy as we know it.”

In a joint interview with ABC News, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Cassidy Hutchinson, and Sarah Matthews, three conservative former Trump administration officials warned America of the danger of a second Trump term, and pledged to vote for President Biden if Trump is the GOP nominee:

“I’ve never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I think that in this next election, I would put policy aside and choose democracy”

[Sal Gentile @salgentile]

Polls show that, somehow, most voters don’t know or have forgotten most of this, so here it is all in one place, as presented by @sethmeyers in tonight’s Closer Look: An overview of Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for president.

(And this is only a small fraction.)

[David Faris @davidmfaris]

If it takes more years than are in a presidential term to prosecute a single person for crimes against democracy that were committed in broad daylight in front of hundreds of millions of people, I just don’t know what to tell you.

[Zach Schrank @Thermocene]

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce, third as a malevolent and deranged specter haunting the corridors of time.

[Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell]

It is nearly impossible for us to fathom how quickly species are disappearing, @carlsafina said. “And so the endeavour of stopping this crisis becomes more of a religious kind of experience than a scientific one, in a sense, more moral than practical.” https://t.co/ZqhiBMcl0Y

[ABC57 News @ABC57News]

This is Schrank's second documentary. His first, which is based on South Bend, is available to stream on Amazon Prime
https://t.co/RfUenFjDVw

[IU South Bend @IUSouthBend]

Documentary “Liminal: Indiana in the Anthropocene” directed by IUSB sociology professor Zach Schrank is now available on the subscription streaming platform Hoodox. It uses drone footage from around the state to show the human impact on Earth. Details: https://t.co/rKukAwuuXg

[Zach Schrank @Thermocene]

You make individual decisions as a driver within the grammar of the streets. But viewed in timelapse there's a larger pattern in the lights, their tracery. A scale at which each driver's agency dissolves. A thread in a tapestry, a poem beyond all human recognition. Ben Lerner

[Zach Schrank @Thermocene]

Watch LIMINAL: Indiana in the Anthropocene now exclusively streaming on Hoodox! We invite you to subscribe and explore the diverse array of outstanding Hoosier-based films available on Hoodox. Your support means everything. https://t.co/02JjBgP7P6

[Zach Schrank @Thermocene]

Coal Line Trail bridge crossing the St. Joseph River before and after.

[Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger]

I wrote about the strange cognitive dissonance of a world that's investing heavily in clean energy, yet still building out enough fossil fuels to erase any of that clean energy's gains. Welcome to climate purgatory, it sucks here: https://t.co/C6sQYX4amv

[Zach Schrank @Thermocene]

@adamwren @POLITICOMag This looks like an Adobe AI Generative Fill creation.

[Zach Schrank @Thermocene]

@EdKrassen This looks like an Adobe AI Generative Fill creation.