{"id":8265,"date":"2015-07-21T14:46:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T19:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=8265"},"modified":"2015-07-21T14:46:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T19:46:46","slug":"bandwagocene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/07\/21\/bandwagocene\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandwagocene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days, it takes a course release for an academic to keep up with the avalanche of books\u00a0being published with titles that feature the word &#8220;Anthropocene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read them would take a sabbatical. Doing anything approximating a &#8220;slow read&#8221; would require, well, retirement.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s no reason not to try. Here&#8217;s just a quick sample of recent titles, some by known authors, others by new names (to me, at least). Comments and additions welcome.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Molecular-Red-Anthropocene-Mckenzie-Wark\/dp\/1781688273\/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_3?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=1K7J27ABGECRQ0JJ1QD8\">Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Textures-Anthropocene-Grain-Vapor-Ray\/dp\/0262527413\/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_9?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=1X10PZB2R2JM9CK5N9KC\">Textures of the Anthropocene: Grain, Vapor, Ray<\/a>\u00a0(4 volumes!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Adventures-Anthropocene-Journey-Heart-Planet\/dp\/1571313575\/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_10?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=1X10PZB2R2JM9CK5N9KC\">Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ecocriticism-Edge-Anthropocene-Threshold-Concept\/dp\/1472505735\/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_7?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=1X10PZB2R2JM9CK5N9KC\">Ecocriticism On the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Shock-Anthropocene-Earth-History\/dp\/1784780790\/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_5?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=1X10PZB2R2JM9CK5N9KC\">The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Minimal-Ethics-Anthropocene-Critical-Climate\/dp\/1607853299\/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_5?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=1313DRBPVF2KAMG1F0F5\">Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wildlife-Anthropocene-Conservation-after-Nature\/dp\/0816681082\/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_3?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=1313DRBPVF2KAMG1F0F5\">Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation After Nature<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Anthropocene-Global-Environmental-Crisis\/dp\/1138821241\/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_1?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=1313DRBPVF2KAMG1F0F5\">The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking Modernity in a New Epoch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Anthropocene-Fictions-Climate-Change-Nature\/dp\/0813936926\/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_2?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=0ZT9FA49ZM8T06R0X2PJ\">Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Anthropocene-Human-Shapes-Planet\/dp\/0907791557\/ref=pd_sim_14_3?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=12WGX1WNCCKM8CBQTH8F\">The Anthropocene: The Human Era and How it Shapes Our Planet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/After-Nature-A-Politics-Anthropocene\/dp\/0674368223\/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_2?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=1X10PZB2R2JM9CK5N9KC\">After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, it takes a course release for an academic to keep up with the avalanche of books\u00a0being published with titles that feature the word &#8220;Anthropocene.&#8221; To read them would take a sabbatical. Doing anything approximating a &#8220;slow read&#8221; would require, well, retirement. But that&#8217;s no reason not to try. Here&#8217;s just a quick sample [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688615],"tags":[123667,5700,6889],"class_list":["post-8265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropo_scene","tag-anthropocene","tag-books","tag-publishing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-29j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11113,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2020\/09\/29\/dont-travel-the-anthropocene-without-this\/","url_meta":{"origin":8265,"position":0},"title":"Don&#8217;t travel the Anthropocene without this","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"September 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I just found out that Punctum Books has created a Shadowing the Anthropocene travel mug based on Vincent van Gerven Oei's superb cover design of my book. 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(All of the Anthropocene literature is arguably humanities-relevant, but not to the same degree.) 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In an excellent summary of recent writing on the topic, ecosocialist climate observer\u00a0Ian Angus answers the question \"Does Anthropocene science blame all humanity?\" with a definitive \"no.\" That\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthropocene&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthropocene","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/anthropo_scene\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9644,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2018\/05\/06\/foreshadowing\/","url_meta":{"origin":8265,"position":4},"title":"(Fore)shadowing","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"May 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Coming soon... \"volcanic eruptions and revolutions, ant cities and dog parks, data clouds and space junk, pagan gods and sacrificial altars, dark flow, souls (of things), and jazz\" https:\/\/punctumbooks.com\/titles\/shadowing-the-anthropocene-eco-realism-for-turbulent-times\/","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthropocene&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthropocene","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/anthropo_scene\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7942,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/12\/13\/anthropocene-multispecies-other-trends\/","url_meta":{"origin":8265,"position":5},"title":"Anthropocene, multispecies, &amp; other trends","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"December 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Academic trend watchers will be interested to see how\u00a0the digital and the Anthropocene have catapulted to the top of hot topics at this year's American Anthropological Association conference.\u00a0(A few others are mentioned here\u00a0and here, Bruno Latour's keynote being one of them. 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