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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 | Comments Off on White smoke

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 | Comments Off on How decolonizing science makes for better science

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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