How We Got Here

Authors

  • Rowan Deer Independent writer-editor

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-19628

Abstract

A brief history of the universe from the big bang to the Anthropocene, as related by someone older and wiser than all of it. A fable for clever beasts. A bedtime story for a species.

Author Biography

  • Rowan Deer, Independent writer-editor

    Rowan Deer is a writer and editor based in Berlin. Her academic monograph, Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World, is published by Bloomsbury, and her writing can also be found in Orion Magazine, The New Statesman, and The Canary.

Photo by NASA Hubble Space Telescope. Unsplash.

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Published

17-02-2026

Issue

No. 9 (2025)

Section

Articles

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Copyright (c) 2026 Rowan Deer

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