My recent E-Flux article, “Russia, Decolonization, and the Capitalism-Democracy Muddle,” raised the question of Russia’s potential “decolonization” — what it means (and doesn’t), and how the debate over it, and over decolonization in general, needs some political updating. The article seems no less relevant after the abortive mutiny led last week by the Wagner Group’s […]
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Russia, the climate crisis, & ecocide
Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged Anthropocene, capitalocene, climate crisis, colonial-capitalocene, colonialism, coloniality, decolonialism, Decolonization, ecocide, environmental consequences of war, postcolonialism, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian war, Ukraine, war on June 29, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
After the Anthropocene, the deluge?
Posted in Anthropocene, tagged Anthropocene, Cenozoic, Chthulucene, dystopia, Ecocene, ecotopia, Ecozoic, futures, futurism, futurology, imagination, Late Holocene, pluriverse, terminal Cenozoic, Thomas Berry, utopia on August 4, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
On the Ecocene, the Chthulucene, the Ecozoic, and other Holocene successor terms The term “Anthropocene” has come to be accepted among many intellectuals as the best, or perhaps least worst, name for the geological present, when human activities have come to dominate the planet. It’s still debated among geologists, with “Holocene” or “Late Holocene” preferred […]
Anthroposcendence…
Posted in Academe, Anthropocene, tagged academic meat grinder, academic publishing, Anthropocene, Anthroposcene, discourse, episteme, fast scholarship, Foucauldian archaeology of knowledge, singularity, slow scholarship, tenure on January 31, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
Keeping up with the scholarly literature on the Anthropocene, or even on the humanities-relevant Anthropocene, has become a full-time job, and no one I know is paid to do that full-time. (All of the Anthropocene literature is arguably humanities-relevant, but not to the same degree.) To give a sense of the numbers: I counted a […]
The feeling of the world
Posted in Cultural politics, tagged affective politics, Anthropocene, conspiracy culture, COVID-19, global cultural studies, global middle class, illiberalism on January 18, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a working thesis on the present global moment: 1. For many people around the world, life has always been precarious. But for a certain class — the global middle class (and up) — the world had felt more or less secure and comfortable, as long as one knew how to navigate it: play by […]
Navigating climate trauma
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, tagged Andrei Tarkovsky, Anthropocene, climate trauma, Solaristics, the Zone, This Mazéd World, Vermont Humanities on November 2, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
I’m happy to share my talk from the recent Vermont Humanities conference. It captures the essence of things I’ve been writing and thinking about over the last while. And rather incredibly for a humanities conference, it was 100% glitch-free (despite the talk’s audio-visual intricacies; well, the image fades aren’t perfectly smooth, but those can be […]
Through an Anthropo(s)cenic Glass, Darkly
Posted in Anthropocene, Cinema, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged 1 Corinthians 13, Anthropocene, climate trauma, Congress of Culture, deep time, Earth's deep past, eco-trauma, geology, geophilosophy, Holocene, IPCC, Late Holocene, Lviv, Peter Brannen, Solaris, Tarkovsky, Through a Glass Darkly, Ukraine, Vermont Humanities Conference, Zizek, Конгрес культури on August 11, 2021 | 1 Comment »
My thinking about the Anthropocenic predicament continues to be informed, even haunted, by Andrei Tarkovsky’s films Solaris and Stalker, along with their literary predecessor novels by (Lviv-born) Stanisław Lem and the Strugatsky brothers, respectively. Two keynote talks I’ve been invited to give this October — one for Ukraine’s Congress of Culture, to take place in […]
(M)anthropocene vs. the pluriverse
Posted in Anthropocene, tagged Alfred Crosby, Anthropocene, calls for proposals, Columbian invasion, ecological imperialism, environmentalism of the poor, Foucault, Manthropocene, Martinez-Alier, multiple modernities, Orbis spike, Planthropocene, pluriverse, Radical History Review on May 18, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
Those interested in the Anthropo(S)cene thread (technically, a “category”) of this blog may be interested in the call for proposals for a special issue of Radical History Review on Alternatives to the Anthropocene. (Hat tip to Jeremy Schmidt at The Anthropo.Scene.) The call reads, in part:
Books of the decade in ecocultural theory
Posted in Eco-theory, tagged Anna Tsing, Anthropocene, books, books of the decade, cosmopolitics, decolonial turn, decoloniality, Donna Haraway, ecocultural theory, Eduardo Kohn, extinction crisis, Marison de la Cadena, multispecies studies, ontological turn on December 18, 2020 | 6 Comments »
How best to characterize the past decade in books? This list focuses on three themes: attempts to grapple with the nature of the climate and extinction crises, the “ontological” and “decolonial” “turns” in cultural and environmental theory, and efforts to map out the “multispecies entanglements” that characterize our world and the acute challenges we face.
Scenes in the image-world
Posted in Visual culture, tagged Anthropocene, books, image ecologies, image regimes, image-world, media ecologies, media studies, The New Lives of Images, visual culture, visual studies on June 26, 2020 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a preview in section headings of the book I’m currently writing. It presents a way of thinking about images, what they’ve done for people, and how all of that figures into the contemporary world of digital media. It then applies that way of thinking to three sets of images: about humans as the stars […]
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