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For fifty years, Telos has articulated as well as contested the critical theory of the contemporary. In many ways, 1968 was a decisive turning point for radical politics in the West, which the journal has chronicled over five decades. As the year of the now classic photograph of the earth taken from Apollo 8 while it orbited the moon during December, environmental thinkers and movements were given a brilliant new cultural imaginary to anchor all of their actions to save the planet and its environments. Nonetheless, the growing sense of loss behind these efforts often is overwhelming, and the environmental…