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Wark on Moore’s Capitalocene

Posted in AnthropoScene, GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , on November 6, 2015 | 5 Comments »

McKenzie Wark gets at some very important issues in what we might call “the ontology of the Anthropocene” in this review of Jason Moore’s book Capitalism in the Web of Life. Moore’s work, as he acknowledges (and as I have argued here before), provides an important contribution to rethinking the relations between humanity, the nonhuman world, and […]

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“Speculative Ecologies of (Post)Cinema” talk

Posted in AnthropoScene, MediaSpace, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on May 5, 2015 | 2 Comments »

The video of my talk on “Speculative Ecologies of (Post)Cinema: Cinema In and Beyond the Capitalocene,” is now up on Vimeo and at Shane Denson’s web site. It is from the SCMS panel “Post-Cinema and/as Speculative Media Theory,” featuring Steven Shaviro, Patricia Pisters, and Mark Hansen. I discuss the archive, the cloud, the common, the slippery morphing image […]

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The Orbis spike

Posted in AnthropoScene, GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , , on March 24, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

In an article in Nature entitled “Defining the Anthropocene,” geographers and climate scientists Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin provide a new approach to dating this era that focuses on an event they call the “Orbis spike,” a dip in atmospheric CO2 occurring around 1610. Effectively, what their proposal does it to allow geologists to harmonize their work […]

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Against the Anthropocene

Posted in AnthropoScene, GeoPhilosophy, 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, […]

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