{"id":8747,"date":"2016-05-07T09:03:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T14:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=8747"},"modified":"2016-05-07T09:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T14:04:00","slug":"wark-on-the-geopolitics-of-the-anthropocene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2016\/05\/07\/wark-on-the-geopolitics-of-the-anthropocene\/","title":{"rendered":"Wark on the geopolitics of the Anthropocene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McKenzie Wark has written a very provocative piece on the geopolitics of the Anthropocene, or what he calls &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bb9.berlinbiennale.de\/geopolitics-of-hibernation\/\">The Geopolitics of Hibernation<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A quote:\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element text-block\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;Resource wars are no new thing. They are a defining feature of the history of geopolitics. But perhaps the resource wars of the Anthropocene have some new features. For one thing, there\u2019s no frontier left, there\u2019s no outside. We no longer live in an open system where resources can be drawn in from without and waste chaos dumped back out again to some hinterland. The Anthropocene is about living in a closed system, where there is no longer an \u201cenvironment\u201d against which the social can seal itself. There\u2019s no separate place for a bunker any more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;The so-called \u201crefugee crisis\u201d is really a sign both that the climate wars have started, and that there is no place to hibernate from them that can endure for all that long. The contested category of \u201crefugee\u201d implies that there is a refuge, and soon there may be none. The proximate cause of the millions streaming over the borders and trying to enter Europe or the United States or Australia may stem from complex political, imperial, and military forces, but underneath all of that is rising climate instability, which is already pushing various kinds of social organization past the point where they can adapt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bb9.berlinbiennale.de\/geopolitics-of-hibernation\/\">entire article<\/a> is worth reading.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McKenzie Wark has written a very provocative piece on the geopolitics of the Anthropocene, or what he calls &#8220;The Geopolitics of Hibernation.&#8221; A quote:\u00a0<\/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":[688615,520594,691215],"tags":[123667,103273,123659,350235],"class_list":["post-8747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropo_scene","category-climate-politics","category-politics_postpolitics","tag-anthropocene","tag-geopolitics","tag-refugee-crisis","tag-wark"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-2h5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8426,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/11\/06\/wark-on-moores-capitalocene\/","url_meta":{"origin":8747,"position":0},"title":"Wark on Moore&#8217;s Capitalocene","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"November 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"McKenzie Wark gets at some very\u00a0important 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. 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See also the discussion of Donna Haraway's \"String Figures\" lecture and Bruno Latour's 11 theses on capitalism.\u00a0 \u00a0 Last week, Lee led us through an\u00a0exercise\u00a0that helped to contextualize the minuteness of the period in which humans (and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthropocene&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthropocene","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/anthropo_scene\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"anthropocene-001-jason-decaires-taylor-sculpture","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-acene\/files\/2014\/04\/anthropocene-001-jason-decaires-taylor-sculpture-300x206.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7754,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/08\/18\/anthropocene-too-serious-for-postmodern-games\/","url_meta":{"origin":8747,"position":5},"title":"Anthropocene: Too serious for postmodern games","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"August 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The following is a guest post by Clive Hamilton, professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia. 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