Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Search Results for 'anthropocene'

Anthropocene, multispecies, & other trends

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged , , , , on December 13, 2014 | 8 Comments »

Academic trend watchers will be interested to see how the digital and the Anthropocene have catapulted to the top of hot topics at this year’s American Anthropological Association conference. (A few others are mentioned here and here, Bruno Latour’s keynote being one of them. Here’s a collection of tweets on Latour’s talk, most of them by Jenny Carlson. […]

Read Full Post »

Anthropocene: Too serious for postmodern games

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Philosophy, Science & society, tagged , , , on August 18, 2014 | 6 Comments »

The following is a guest post by Clive Hamilton, professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia. It continues the Immanence series “Debating the Anthropocene.” See here, here, and here for previous articles in the series. (And note that some lengthy comments have been added to the previous post by Jan Zalasiewicz, Kieran […]

Read Full Post »

Anthropocene debate continues

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged , , , on August 5, 2014 | 10 Comments »

Kieran Suckling’s post Against the Anthropocene, originally posted here on July 7 and subsequently shared with the International Commission on Stratigraphy’s Anthropocene Working Group by Andy Revkin, has elicited a round of emailed back-and-forths from some noteworthy individuals, including paleobiologist Jan Zalasiewicz and paleoecologist Anthony Barnosky. As this debate would be of interest to readers of this […]

Read Full Post »

Against the Anthropocene

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged , , , , on July 7, 2014 | 14 Comments »

The following is a guest post by Kieran Suckling, Executive Director of the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity. It follows the discussion begun here and in some AESS conference sessions, including Andy Revkin’s keynote talk (viewable here) and responses to it (such as Clive Hamilton’s).  I In considering why the name “Anthropocene” has been proposed, why it has been embraced by many, […]

Read Full Post »

On naming the Anthropocene

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on June 12, 2014 | 14 Comments »

The following are the comments I prepared for the roundtable “The Arts and Humanities Respond to the Anthropocene.” They follow in the line of critical thinking on the Anthropocene initiated by gatherings like the Anthropocene Project (see here, here, and here, and some of the posts at A(S)CENE) and journals like Environmental Humanities. As a cultural theorist, […]

Read Full Post »

NYC: Arts & Humanities on the Anthropocene

Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-culture, tagged , , , on June 10, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

This week’s AESS conference “Welcome to the Anthropocene” features a breakfast roundtable called “The Arts and Humanities Respond to the Anthropocene.” See the session description below. Unfortunately the panelists have been dropping like flies: it looks like neither dancer and performance artist Jennifer Monson, eco-artist Jackie Brookner, nor performer and comedian Jennifer Joy can make it. That […]

Read Full Post »

Anthropocene aesthetics

Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , on April 10, 2014 | 1 Comment »

Cross-posting this piece by Emil from A(s)cene. Taylor’s coral reef art is beautiful. See also the discussion of Donna Haraway’s “String Figures” lecture and Bruno Latour’s 11 theses on capitalism.   

Read Full Post »

Anthropocene readings

Posted in Anthropocene, Uncategorized on January 20, 2014 | 1 Comment »

       I’m thinking of making my Spring semester graduate class, “Environment, Science, and Society in the Anthropocene,” into a semi-public seminar series, with a blog where we will share links to readings and videos as well as discussions. (Actual meetings will not be online, but will be open to interested members of the UVM […]

Read Full Post »

Situating “The New Lives of Images”

Posted in Eco-theory, Media ecology, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , on April 14, 2026 | Leave a Comment »

While Stanford University Press has made the first chapter of The New Lives of Images available to readers on the book’s web site, what it hasn’t made available is the Preface, which lays out the problem the book is intended to address, as well as the book’s relationship to the three books that preceded it. […]

Read Full Post »

Chornobyl @ 40 & upcoming talks

Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2026 | Leave a Comment »

Cross-posted from UKR-TAZ. Ukrainian Review has published a special issue on “Legacies of Chornobyl” that includes a fascinating interview with historian Serhii Plokhy (who seems to be writing at the incredible rate of a book a year) alongside several articles on the muliple dimensions of the accident and its impacts. My own piece in the […]

Read Full Post »

Beyond species solipsism, or, Are we alone yet?

Posted in Spirit matter, tagged , , on January 30, 2026 | 1 Comment »

I’m sharing a little fragment of The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds. This particular piece comes close to the beginning of the “Theoscene” chapter (reader’s guide here), where I make the case for a broadened understanding of the “more-than-human worlds” of the book’s subtitle. This version omits the […]

Read Full Post »

Books of the quarter-century in ecocultural theory

Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-culture, Eco-theory, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 31, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

We’re now a quarter of the way into the present century, and what a rollercoaster it’s become. Every ten years this century I’ve posted a list of the “Books of the Decade in Ecocultural Theory.” (The last one was here; the previous, here.) Given how quickly things are evolving — and the precarious state of […]

Read Full Post »

« Prev - Next »

Skip to toolbar