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Inhuman Nature CH 5

March 19, 2014by kay gee

  We continue our journey down the rabbit hole that is the Anthropocene this week with Chapter 5 of Nigel Clark’s Inhuman Nature. Chapter 5 focuses on the issue of […]

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Nigel Clark Continued: Chapters 3. After the Tsunami and 4. Quaking

March 11, 2014by Emil Tsao 3 Comments

We continue in week nine to study the Anthropocene using Nigel Clark’s book Inhuman Nature as a way of conceptualizing an earth system without a human presence, or a nature […]

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THE WORLD WITHOUT US

February 13, 2014by abcorbet 4 Comments

This week, we embark on a thought experiment: what would happen if humans suddenly disappeared from the Earth? This journey into the improbable (but intriguing) disappearance of humans is inspired […]

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Clark’s wager: radical asymmetry

February 13, 2014by Adrian J Ivakhiv 2 Comments

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 […]

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Geologic Now conversation

February 10, 2014by Adrian J Ivakhiv 10 Comments

Here is where we will be conversing about Making the Geologic Now. New posts will be added in the comments section below.  

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Acceleration & the short/long/annoying Now

February 6, 2014by Adrian J Ivakhiv 1 Comment

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 […]

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The geologic now: theorizing its sociable life

February 1, 2014by Adrian J Ivakhiv 3 Comments

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 […]

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Further orientations (continued)

January 29, 2014by Emil Tsao 1 Comment

1. Eileen Crist, “On the Poverty of Our Nomenclature. Environmental Humanities 3 (2013), 129-147. In last week’s class we discussed the traditional separation of human and natural history for reasons […]

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Further orientations

January 26, 2014by Adrian J Ivakhiv 1 Comment

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’: […]

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Starting up

January 21, 2014by Adrian J Ivakhiv 1 Comment

Here are a couple of initial readings to get us going. Zalasiewicz, J., M. Williams, W. Steffen, P. Crutzen, “The New World of the Anthropocene,” Environmental Science & Technology Viewpoint […]

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