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Syllabus Cache Climate Justice in the Anthropocene: An Introductory Reading List -…
As the alarm bells have made it urgently clear—humanity has breached planetary boundaries—causing anthropogenic climate change and environmental disaster across the world.

August 3 2023, 11:34am | Comments
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People assume that adjusting to climate change means giving up stuff we want. But what if it means giving up things we’re well rid of?

April 18 2023, 4:53am | Comments
Bookmark What if climate change meant not doom — but abundance?
People assume that adjusting to climate change means giving up stuff we want. But what if it means giving up things we’re well rid of?

April 18 2023, 12:53am | Comments
Bookmark The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud | The MIT…
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage. The Cloud is not…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark Anna L. Tsing on Creating ‘Wonder in the Midst of Dread’
Through her writings and the collaborative curatorial platform Feral Atlas, the anthropologist is offering new ways of imagining – and representing – our relationship to nature

January 31 2022, 1:51am | Comments
Bookmark Opinion | Can Geoegineering Fix Climate Change? - The New York Times
Dr. Keith is a professor of applied physics and of public policy at Harvard, where he led the development of the university’s solar engineering research program.

October 4 2021, 7:51am | Comments
Bookmark Exiting The Anthropocene and Entering The Symbiocene. | Psychoterratica
It has been proposed that humans are now living within a period of the Earth’s history appropriately named ‘The Anthropocene’ (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000).

June 22 2021, 9:55pm | Comments
Bookmark An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried
Human extinction. The coordinated release of various strains of a human sterilization virus.

October 22 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Bookmark Geoengineering Is the Only Solution to Our Climate Calamities | WIRED
Parag Khanna is the author of Connectography (2016) and The Future is Asian (2019). Michael Ferrari is managing partner at Atlas Research Innovations and a senior fellow at the Wharton School.

October 9 2020, 12:13am | Comments
Bookmark Springtime Everywhere — Real Life
“If you look at Google Earth, it’s springtime everywhere,” explains Gopal Shah, Google Earth’s product manager, in a YouTube interview. In a TED talk he boasts that Google Earth is “cloud-free,”…

October 8 2020, 11:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Revolutionary archaeology reveals the deepest possible Anthropocene | Aeon Essays
Humanity’s transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture is one of the most important developments in human and Earth history. Human societies, plant and animal populations, the makeup of the atmosphere,…

October 2 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Bookmark MONSTROUS THOUGHTS: Philosopher Eugene Thacker on the “New Golden Age of Horror”…
When René Descartes, sitting in his armchair in Leiden in 1641, invites his readers to meditate alongside him, you get the sense he could do with the company.

August 21 2019, 4:09am | Comments
Bookmark What is Called Thinking in the Anthropocene? — The Revealer
This is a piece about failures. My failures, mostly, as a thinker and a scholar, but also the failure of my field and the failure of all of us to think…

August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments
Bookmark The Arrogance of the Anthropocene - The Atlantic
On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch. Humans are now living in a new geological epoch of our own making: the Anthropocene. Or so we’re told.

August 17 2019, 8:05am | Comments
Bookmark Washington Monthly | The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution
Tens of thousands of Londoners died of cholera from the 1830s to the 1860s. The causes were simple: mass quantities of human waste and industrial contaminants were pouring into the Thames,…

February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark ‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant…
What does it mean to be alive right now? Right now. Right this second, right this epoch, as mankind alters the Earth beyond recognition.

February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’ - BBC News
Colonisation of the Americas at the end of the 15th Century killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate. That's the conclusion of scientists from University College London, UK.

February 4 2019, 6:52pm | Comments
Bookmark Technological and Posthuman Zones – Critical Posthumanism
Modern technology seems always to have been judged according to its utility for human beings. To the extent that technologies have been viewed as tools, instruments, or prostheses for human use,…

November 30 2018, 3:17am | Comments
Bookmark ‘It’s Time to Decolonize Environmentalism’: An Interview with Zina Saro-Wiwa | Frieze
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October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark Searching for Language to Capture How Climate Change Has Altered Our World…
RISING Dispatches from the New American Shore By Elizabeth Rush Illustrated. 299 pp. Milkweed Editions. $26. A drowned world: It’s an ancient fear and a very old story.

August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer |…
Veganism has rocketed in the UK over the past couple of years – from an estimated half a million people in 2016 to more than 3.5 million – 5% of our…

August 26 2018, 9:41pm | Comments
Bookmark We Should Never Have Called It Earth | The On Being Project
We should never have called it Earth. Three quarters of the planet’s surface is saltwater, and most of it does not lap at tranquil beaches for our amusement. The ocean is…

July 31 2018, 7:35pm | Comments
Bookmark Plastic plankton, the Anthropocene’s emblematic “microorganism” – We Make Money Not Art
Mandy Barker, Ophelia medustica. Specimen collected from Glounthaune shoreline, Cove of Cork, Ireland, (Pram wheel), 2015. Series: Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals, 2015 In 1816, John Vaughan Thompson was posted to…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark Colonialism did not just create slavery: it changed geology | Science |…
It brought riches to Britain and many other European nations; played a major role in enslaving more than 10 million Africans; and created the first global markets in cotton, tobacco and…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark The Neologismcene | Literature, the Humanities, & the World
This particular terminological game is just about up, I think, and it's no surprise that Anthropos has won again. I don't think we'll be using any word but Anthropocene to describe…

May 24 2018, 7:47am | Comments
Bookmark How the chicken nugget became the true symbol of our era |…
This is what happens when you turn the natural world into a profit-making machine. By and Jason W Moore The most telling symbol of the modern era isn’t the automobile or…

May 8 2018, 4:13am | Comments
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April 16 2018, 11:01am | Comments
Bookmark Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? - e-flux Architecture - e-flux
We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn1 By now, dystopia may have become a luxury genre. Indulging in miserable future scenarios is not something everyone…

April 10 2018, 12:38pm | Comments
Bookmark The swiftness of glaciers: language in a time of climate change |…
Language bends and buckles under pressure of climate change. Take the adjective ‘glacial’. I recently came across an old draft of my PhD dissertation on which my advisor had scrawled the…

April 4 2018, 8:08am | Comments
Bookmark Two degrees no longer seen as global warming guardrail
Limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius will not prevent destructive and deadly climate impacts, as once hoped, dozens of experts concluded in a score of scientific studies released Monday. A…

April 4 2018, 8:08am | Comments
Bookmark An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried - Motherboard
Human extinction. The coordinated release of various strains of a human sterilization virus.

April 4 2018, 8:08am | Comments
Bookmark Tourists are swarming Antarctica to see it before it’s gone | The…
“Join our team on this special voyage that equips leaders with resources and actionable solutions to become a part of a global force of change.” This isn’t the description for Doctors…

March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

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