Announcing BASTA!
BASTA! stands for “Bridging the Arts, Sciences, and Theoretical Humanities for the Anthropocene.” (See here for more information.) It’s the informal name under which a group of Burlington academics and activists […]
Author Archives: Adrian J Ivakhiv
BASTA!: The Call
Here’s the call I sent out a few weeks ago to several individuals and groups at the University of Vermont and in the broader Burlington, Vermont, area. More information will […]
Barnosky & Zalasiewicz weigh in
Anthropocene Working Group members Tony Barnosky and Jan Zalasiewicz have weighed in on the debate elicited by Kieran Suckling’s Against the Anthropocene. The continued debate can be read here.
Against the Anthropocene
Kieran Suckling’s article “Against the Anthropocene,” posted over at sister blog Immanence, should be of interest to readers of this blog.
Haraway’s string figures, Latour’s theses
The video is here. The introduction is here. First, a suggestion for listening to Haraway (for those who haven’t done that before): If you can’t follow her, that’s okay. She […]
Clark’s wager: radical asymmetry
Here are a few thoughts to get us started in discussing Chapter 2 (and what follows) of Inhuman Nature. I’m also copying Harlan’s notes from the comments section of the […]
Geologic Now conversation
Here is where we will be conversing about Making the Geologic Now. New posts will be added in the comments section below.
Acceleration & the short/long/annoying Now
Picking up on the commentary in the previous post, much of today’s discussion focused on temporality, and specifically on the following themes: (1) Acceleration We discussed the acceleration of time […]
The geologic now: theorizing its sociable life
For next week we will be reading the following. (Note that I’ve decided to leave aside the DeLanda reading we had discussed at our meeting, and instead to begin working […]
Further orientations
This week we’re reading the following: 1. Eileen Crist, “On the Poverty of Our Nomenclature. Environmental Humanities 3 (2013), 129-147. 2. Ben Dibley, ” ‘The Shape of Things to Come’: […]