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 […]
A JOURNEY INTO GEOLOGIC TIME
Throughout this semester, our discussions have continually eluded to the idea of “geologic time”. In essence, a geologist’s definition of time is one that encompasses the entire duration of Earth’s […]
Disasters, responses, networks
These are the notes from our March 27 class discussion (taken by KL, with a few minor additions by AI). The discussion focused on chapters 3-5 of Clark’s Inhuman Nature. […]
Inhuman Nature CH 5
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 […]
Nigel Clark Continued: Chapters 3. After the Tsunami and 4. Quaking
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 […]
THE WORLD WITHOUT US
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 […]
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 […]