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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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’: […]

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 […]