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Posts Tagged ‘Erle Ellis’

Anthropocene dust-up: what it means

Posted in Anthropocene, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , on March 22, 2024 | 1 Comment »

The recent International Union of Geological Sciences decision to reject the proposed “Anthropocene epoch” might seem confusing. Here’s a piece of draft material from my forthcoming book-in-progress, The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds, that attempts to bring the situation up to date. Comments welcome! Please note that the […]

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White smoke

Posted in Anthropocene, tagged , on March 5, 2024 | Leave a Comment »

Everyone sitting on the edge of their seats waiting for geologists to finally decide whether or not we have entered the Anthropocene epoch can now breath a sigh of relief. They’ve sent up their white smoke signal to indicate that yes, they’ve decided. (Oh, maybe I’m mixing it up with the Vatican.) They’ve decided no. […]

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How decolonizing science makes for better science

Posted in Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 3, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

Two new publications — one in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the other in The Atlantic — help make a point that critics of the “Anthropocene” (the name, not the geological designation) have been making for years: that it’s not humanity that is somehow at fault for the ecological crisis, since […]

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