Here are a few thoughts coming out of the five weeks of readings in decolonial theory that I’m doing with my Advanced Environmental Humanities class (which has been online and open to the interested public). The course is centrally concerned with the present “global moment,” and the following can be considered a short take on […]
Posts Tagged ‘capitalocene’
Wark on Moore’s Capitalocene
Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged Anthropocene, capitalism, capitalocene, Jason Moore, Mackenzie Wark, Peirce 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 […]
“Speculative Ecologies of (Post)Cinema” talk
Posted in Cinema, Process-relational thought, tagged animation, Anthropocene, biosemiosis, capitalocene, carbon capitalism, documentary, ecocinema studies, ecomedia, media theory, post-cinema 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 […]
The Orbis spike
Posted in Anthropocene, tagged Anthropocene, capitalocene, environmental history, geology, modernity/coloniality research program, Orbis spike, world-systems theory 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 […]
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, […]