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, […]
Posts Tagged ‘Andy Revkin’
Against the Anthropocene
Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged Andy Revkin, Anthropocene, anthropocentrism, capitalocene, environmental humanities on July 7, 2014 | 14 Comments »
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, […]