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Koinocene (or Cœnocene)?

Posted in AnthropoScene, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 7, 2018 | 2 Comments »

Peircian thinker Gary Fuhrman has posted an interesting piece on the naming of the Anthropocene, entitled Holocenoscopy. Noting that the word Holocene means nothing more than “entirely recent,” as opposed to the Pleistocene, which means “most recent,” so there’s really nowhere left to go with naming geological periods after their recentness, Fuhrman suggests we look to another […]

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Time for eco-revolution (a manifesto)

Posted in AnthropoScene, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 28, 2018 | 5 Comments »

Inspired by the daily litany of depressing news (and by reading Latour’s Down to Earth), I’ve succumbed to the temptation of writing a manifesto. Manifestos are cheap, I know, but we have to start somewhere. (And so many questions arise as you write one: about the proper balance between critique and vision, between generality and […]

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Shadowing the Anthropocene: a reader’s guide

Posted in AnthropoScene, GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 13, 2018 | 7 Comments »

Here’s the “reader’s guide” I promised for Shadowing the Anthropocene. It begins with a quick summary of the book’s main contribution — a kind of “master key” to what it tries to do. It then lays out a set of paths one can take through the book, which would be useful for readers with an […]

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Shadowing the Anthropocene

Posted in AnthropoScene, GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 9, 2018 | 2 Comments »

Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times arrived in the mail today. It’s published by punctum books, an open-access academic and para-academic publisher I’ve found to be a real delight to work with. Eileen Joy deserves a medal for her leadership of punctum, and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei’s cover and book design is beautiful. The book […]

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Welcome to the… Meghalayan?

Posted in AnthropoScene, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 12, 2018 | 8 Comments »

Geology watchers were more than a little surprised last month to learn that we are living in a new age called the Meghalayan, which apparently began about 4200 years ago. After all the excitement over the Anthropocene, it seems that a rival group of geological stratigraphers — one tasked with naming the sub-parts of the Holocene — has […]

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10 years (of Late Holocene life)

Posted in AnthropoScene, BlogStuff, tagged , , , , , , on June 20, 2018 | 3 Comments »

(Or twice the video below.) Immanence passed its tenth anniversary last month and somehow failed to celebrate it. (The actual anniversary, May 11, marks the posting of this two-line fragment. Regular posts took another seven months to appear, or at least to take on a permanent form.) To celebrate, I recently re-did the Primer page, which collects […]

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Skipping an Earthbeat

Posted in AnthropoScene, GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 15, 2018 | 4 Comments »

Reading Bill McGuire‘s 2012 book Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes, I came across this description of the annual “pulse” called an “Earthbeat,” which is supposedly responsible for Earth’s preference for volcanic eruptions between November and April (also known as “volcano season”): rather like a beating heart, the Earth changes […]

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Welcome to the Feverish World (CFP)

Posted in Academe, AnthropoScene, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 25, 2018 | 5 Comments »

Please circulate widely… FEVERISH WORLD 2018-2068: ARTS & SCIENCES OF COLLECTIVE SURVIVAL  A Symposium and Convergence in Burlington, Vermont, October 20-22, 2018 Fifty years after the widespread international protests of 1968 challenged institutional norms, and some sixty years after C. P. Snow lamented the gap between academia’s “two cultures,” those of the arts and the sciences, […]

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(Fore)shadowing

Posted in AnthropoScene, tagged , , on May 6, 2018 | 9 Comments »

Coming soon… “volcanic eruptions and revolutions, ant cities and dog parks, data clouds and space junk, pagan gods and sacrificial altars, dark flow, souls (of things), and jazz”

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Anthropo(s)cenic Chernobyl* in image & text

Posted in AnthropoScene, GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 15, 2018 | 5 Comments »

My Gund Institute research talk from a few months ago, on “Navigating Earth’s ‘Zone of Alienation’: Chernobyl and the Search for Adequate Images of the Anthropocene,” can now be viewed online (see link below). It consists mostly of out-takes from my book Shadowing the Anthropocene, forthcoming later this year from Punctum Books.

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The 5 D’s

Posted in AnthropoScene, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on April 11, 2018 | 3 Comments »

… that might get humans to pull through the next few centuries relatively intact as a species (if not undiminished or unscathed): Decarbonization, Deplasticization, Demilitarization, Decolonization, and Demographic Transition. The first, Decarbonization, entails a dramatic reduction in industrial production of atmospheric carbon (and other greenhouse gas) emissions. It will keep conditions for the flourishing of […]

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Rant for the day

Posted in AnthropoScene, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 14, 2017 | 6 Comments »

Let’s face facts: Life in such cold climates as the one I live in (it was 8°F/-14°C here this morning) would hardly be possible, for us in such numbers as we are, without fossil fuels. The harnessing of fossil fuel energy has enabled tremendous innovation — innovation that, if managed well, could help us get […]

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