{"id":9722,"date":"2018-06-20T10:31:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=9722"},"modified":"2022-08-04T08:25:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T13:25:01","slug":"10-years-of-late-holocene-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2018\/06\/20\/10-years-of-late-holocene-life\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years (of Late Holocene life)"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Or twice the video below.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Immanence passed its tenth anniversary last month and somehow failed to celebrate it. (The actual anniversary, May 11, marks the posting of\u00a0this two-line fragment.<\/a>\u00a0Regular posts took another seven months to appear, or at least to take on a permanent form.)<\/p>\n

To celebrate, I recently re-did the Primer page<\/a>, which collects some of the more interesting theoretical\/analytical posts across several themes — “Eco-theory and climate politics,” “Post-constructivism and Speculative Realism,” “Process-relational theory,” “Cinema and media theory,” “The body politic (politics, affect, culture),” “Interdisciplinarity, scholarly publishing, and academic life,” “the ‘Anthropocene’ naming debate,” and “Readings” (i.e., book discussions). I also added to the “Faves” page<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At some point I’ll do a 10-year reflection on the blog. For now, let it be said that I’ve enjoyed having this kind of forum and the many responses it’s gotten over the years. If there was a “heyday” of activity, it was probably the two-or-so year period of vigorous debate over “objects” and “processes” that peaked around late 2009 and 2010. Some of those debates feature in my forthcoming book,<\/a>\u00a0though the book is also a development of the eco-philosophical framework developed in Ecologies of the Moving Image<\/a> and applied to understanding the so-called Anthropocene.<\/p>\n

On the latter topic, I’ve really come around to the conclusion that naming a geological era in advance of (or in the midst of) that era makes little sense except<\/em> as a strategic move to draw attention to its premise, that is, to the human impact on the Earth. It’s much more sensible to reframe our understanding of the Holocene. We are now in the Critical<\/em> Holocene. Or maybe the Late<\/em> Holocene.<\/p>\n

Not “late” in the sense of its having passed away quite yet, but, well, pretty close to that.<\/p>\n