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. […]
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Anthropocene, multispecies, & other trends
Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged AAA, Anthropocene, anthropology, Hartigan, multispecies on December 13, 2014 | 8 Comments »
Anthropocene: Too serious for postmodern games
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Philosophy, Science & society, tagged Anthropocene, Clive Hamilton, environmental humanities, geology 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 […]
Anthropocene debate continues
Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged Anthropocene, anthropocentrism, environmental humanities, geology 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 […]
Against the Anthropocene
Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged Andy Revkin, Anthropocene, anthropocentrism, capitalocene, environmental humanities 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, […]
On naming the Anthropocene
Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged Andy Revkin, Anthropocene, capitalism, ecopolitics, environmental humanities, two cultures 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, […]
NYC: Arts & Humanities on the Anthropocene
Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-culture, tagged AESS, Anthropocene, eco-arts, environmental humanities 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 […]
Anthropocene aesthetics
Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged aesthetics, Anthropocene, coral reefs 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.
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 […]
The 3 Body Problem’s Ecological Fallacy
Posted in Eco-theory, Science & society, tagged 3 Body Problem, anthropocentrism, Cixin Liu, ecocriticism, ecological fallacy, ecotheory, Netflix, science fiction, speculative fiction, Three Body Problem, zero-order humanism on July 1, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
This is a slightly evolved out-take from my recent Vermont Humanities talk, which can be viewed here. Netflix’s 3 Body Problem was remarkably entertaining, I thought, but the whole San-Ti plot line is built around a basic ecological fallacy. Let me explain. (And I’m referring here to the Netflix series, not necessarily to the novel […]
Symbiocene talk, AI, & other things
Posted in Anthropocene, Media ecology, tagged AI, artificial intelligence, big data, Free Cultural Space, Glenn Albrecht, human-nature relationships, Symbiocene, Towards the Symbiocene on June 27, 2024 | 1 Comment »
This blog has been a bit quiet as I transition to my new position as Woodsworth Chair in Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University. I’ll be sharing more about that soon. In the meantime, I can share links to a few recent talks. Last year’s Free Cultural Spaces symposium “Towards the Symbiocene,” held in Amsterdam’s Club […]
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