I’ll be giving this talk at the University of Kansas on Thursday. It’ll be exactly two days after the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. And 16 days before the 30th anniversary of Mikhail Gorbachev’s speech about the accident. Pravda (Truth) first reported in any detail on the accident on May 6 and 7. The future of the Soviet […]
Archive for the ‘Anthropocene’ Category
30 Years (or 30,000): Spectral stories of Chernobyl
Posted in Anthropocene, tagged Anthropocene, anti-nuclear movement, biopolitics, Chernobyl, Cold War, nuclear power, Stalker, Tarkovsky, Ukraine, USSR on April 25, 2016 | 4 Comments »
Post-Paris thoughts: The beginning of the end?
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Politics, tagged carbon capitalism, ClimateJustice, COP21, fossil fuel era, international agreements, Paris climate summit on December 13, 2015 | 7 Comments »
The Paris climate talks were successful in that they resulted in an agreement that is both better than nothing and better than most of us expected. They were a failure in that even if they are followed to the letter — and there’s no provision for enforcing whether anyone follows them or not — they would […]
Climate Justice for dummies
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Politics, tagged Anthropocene, carbon capitalism, ClimateJustice, environmental justice on December 9, 2015 | 1 Comment »
Here’s how I would explain the concept of Climate Justice in four easy steps: The wealthiest 1% emit 2500 times more greenhouse gases than the poorest 1%. Those greenhouse gases are in the process of changing the Earth’s climate to render it uninhabitable for the kind of mix of human & nonhuman species that exists […]
Wark on Moore’s Capitalocene
Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged Anthropocene, capitalism, capitalocene, Jason Moore, Mackenzie Wark, Peirce on November 6, 2015 | 5 Comments »
McKenzie Wark gets at some very important issues in what we might call “the ontology of the Anthropocene” in this review of Jason Moore’s book Capitalism in the Web of Life. Moore’s work, as he acknowledges (and as I have argued here before), provides an important contribution to rethinking the relations between humanity, the nonhuman world, and […]
Not just waiting for Godot
Posted in Anthropocene, tagged environmental crisis, environmental studies, optimism, pedagogy, pessimism on September 11, 2015 | 19 Comments »
You may take this as more optimistic blathering from within the pessimistic morass, but here goes. Those of us who teach environmental studies — who teach impressionable young adults about the colossal challenges facing humanity in the coming decades, with the looming climate crisis, resource wars and (human and nonhuman) refugee crises, and mass extinction on a […]
Bandwagocene
Posted in Anthropocene, tagged Anthropocene, books, publishing on July 21, 2015 | 3 Comments »
These days, it takes a course release for an academic to keep up with the avalanche of books being published with titles that feature the word “Anthropocene.” To read them would take a sabbatical. Doing anything approximating a “slow read” would require, well, retirement. But that’s no reason not to try. Here’s just a quick sample […]
Anthropocene & equity
Posted in Anthropocene, tagged Anthropocene, ClimateJustice, global equity on June 1, 2015 | 5 Comments »
I’ve reported previously on how critics see the “Anthropocene” concept as overgeneralizing from the causal nuances of actual responsibility for climate (and global system) change. In an excellent summary of recent writing on the topic, ecosocialist climate observer Ian Angus answers the question “Does Anthropocene science blame all humanity?” with a definitive “no.” That doesn’t mean that the term […]
4 Noble Truths of Socio-Ecological Suffering
Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-culture, Manifestos & auguries, tagged Anthropocene, buen vivir, carbon capitalism, ClimateJustice, ecological sacrifice zones, environmental justice, Sydney Tar Ponds on May 1, 2015 | 8 Comments »
Some 2500 years ago, a man named Siddhartha Gotama articulated what have come to be known as the “4 Noble Truths”: the truth of dukkha, or fundamental suffering (that there is a basic unsatisfactoriness to life), the truth of its causes (that it arises from an ignorance and misperception of the nature of things, which are […]
Trembling yet?
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, tagged ecopolitics, extreme extraction, fracking, gas, oil on April 25, 2015 | 1 Comment »
The New York Times reported this week that “The United States Geological Survey on Thursday released its first comprehensive assessment of the link between thousands of earthquakes and oil and gas operations, identifying and mapping 17 regions where quakes have occurred. […] “By far the hardest-hit state, the report said, is Oklahoma, where earthquakes are hundreds of […]
Categories
- Academe (108)
- Anthropocene (75)
- Blog stuff (52)
- Cinema (88)
- Climate change (75)
- Cultural politics (45)
- Eco-culture (174)
- Eco-theory (55)
- Manifestos & auguries (42)
- Media ecology (120)
- Music & soundscape (39)
- Philosophy (261)
- Politics (167)
- Process-relational thought (101)
- Science & society (36)
- Spirit matter (129)
- Uncategorized (57)
- Visual culture (88)
Translate
Archives
Subscribe to Blog via Email
Subscribe2
Top Posts & Pages
Popular resources
Books & articles
Selected interviews, talks, music
Associated sites
Immanence on Facebook
-
