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Bookmark Open Humanities Press– Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols
Following on from Theory and the Disappearing Future, Cohen, Colebrook and Miller turn their attention to the eco-critical and environmental humanities’ newest and most fashionable of concepts, the Anthropocene.

January 9 2016, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark Human impact has pushed Earth into the Anthropocene, scientists say
There is now compelling evidence to show that humanity’s impact on the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and wildlife has pushed the world into a new geological epoch, according to a group of…

January 8 2016, 9:09am | Comments
Additivism #Additivism on Disnovation Research panel @ Transmediale 2016
Additivism on Disnovation Research panel @ Transmediale, Berlin (4th Feb 2016)#Additivism will be part of the Disnovation Research Panel at the upcoming Transmediale Festival. Disnovation Research is a project by Nicolas Maigret inquiring into the mechanics and rhetoric of innovation. Considering the “propaganda of innovation”…

January 7 2016, 4:28am | Comments
Syllabus Cache The Anthropocene: A Reading List — Jason M. Kelly
In preparation for teaching a course entitled, “History, the Environment, and the Global Anthropocene,” I thought that it might be a good idea to compile an interdisciplinary reading list on the Anthropocene. The list that I decided to create is not…

December 25 2015, 9:43am | Comments
Additivism #Additivism Workshop @ Sonic Acts, Amsterdam (Feb/March 2016)
Additivism Workshop @ Sonic Acts, Amsterdam (Feb/March 2016)We are excited to announce a 2 day #Additivism Workshop as part of Sonic Acts Academy, Feb/March 2016 The Sonic Acts Academy relates to topics that are connected to the ‘dark matter’ theme Sonic Acts is currently…

December 22 2015, 4:20am | Comments
Bookmark Nature Has Lost Its Meaning - The Atlantic
Humans were once a fairly average species of large mammals, living off the land with little effect on it. But in recent millennia, our relationship with the natural world has changed…

December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments
Bookmark The Anthropocene and a Critical Theory of Machines | Heathwood Press
The significance of the idea of the Anthropocene epoch is centrally about the understanding of human intervention into and extraction from nature, and one that can be signalled in the geological…

November 28 2015, 4:30am | Comments
Bookmark Plastiglomerate, the Anthropocene’s New Stone
Kelly Jazvac, “Plastiglomerate Samples” (2013), plastic and beach sediment, including sand, basalt rock, wood and coral. All of these found-object artworks are the results of a collaboration between Jazvac, geologist Patricia…

November 27 2015, 11:22am | Comments
Bookmark To Survive, We Must Go Extinct - Apocalyptic Terrorism and Transhumanism -…
I believe that the present century is the most precarious in which humanity has ever lived. On the one hand, certain emerging technologies are placing an ever-greater amount of power in…

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
Bookmark jwz: Welcome to the Anthropocene
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November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
Bookmark Wark on Moore’s Capitalocene « immanence
McKenzie Wark gets at some very important 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.

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
Bookmark ‘Auto-rewilding’ landscapes and the Anthropocene – Interview with Anna Tsing | Allegra
Anna Tsing is professor of anthropology at the University of Santa Cruz, California and the Nils Bohr professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, where she heads the Living in the Anthropocene research…

November 19 2015, 2:13am | Comments
Bookmark THE HUMAN LAYER | More Intelligent Life
Is humanity’s impact on its environment so huge that the planet has entered a new geological era: the Anthropocene? The idea is gaining ground—and dividing scientists. Helen Gordon investigates

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark Naomi Klein's Radical Guide to the Anthropocene | The New Republic
Last year, Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything laid bare the capitalist economic system’s dependence on environmental devastation. We can’t fight climate change until we properly understand capitalism’s culpability, she argued.

October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark LEARNING TO DIE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: INTERVIEW WITH ROY SCRANTON | FOP
LEARNING TO DIE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: INTERVIEW WITH ROY SCRANTON AN INTERVIEW WITH ROY SCRANTON ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK: LEARNING TO DIE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: REFLECTIONS ON THE END OF CIVILIZATIONIn 2013,…

October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark e-flux journal 56th Venice Biennale – SUPERCOMMUNITY – Extinction as Usual?: Geo-Social…
The concept of the Anthropocene, the so-called geological age of man, has become pervasive in recent years, marking one of those rare instances when an idea from the natural sciences gains…

October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments
Bookmark Do humans stand a chance in Earth’s sixth mass extinction? - Quartz
Scientists recently suggested that the Earth’s sixth mass extinction has begun.

October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments
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September 15 2015, 10:46am | Comments
Bookmark Climate Change Means One World's Death and Another's Birth | WIRED
A few years ago in a lab in Panama, Klaus Winter tried to conjure the future. A plant physiologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, he planted seedlings of 10 tropical…

September 1 2015, 7:09am | Comments
Portfolio Artist in Residence @ VIA 2015 Festival: What is #Additivism?

September 1 2015, 4:57am | Comments
Bookmark Anthropocene: On the Substance of a New Idea
In February 2000, Paul J. Crutzen erupted at a scientific conference in Mexico. Five years previously, the Dutch-born atmospheric chemist had been awarded the Nobel Prize for being one of the…

July 24 2015, 8:51am | Comments
Bookmark I. Welcome to the Anthropocene!
“In a single lifetime we have grown into a phenomenal global force. We move more sediment and rock annually than all natural processes such as erosion and rivers. We manage three…

July 19 2015, 5:57am | Comments
Tumblr 3D Additivism: You have 3 weeks left to…1. Devise a weird...

July 8 2015, 3:53am | Comments
Bookmark Preface to a Genealogy of the Postnatural - Center for PostNatural History
(Originally appearing in the book "Intercalations 2: Land & Animal & Non-Animal" Co-edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin. Published by K. Verlag and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.…

July 7 2015, 7:27am | Comments
Bookmark The Sixth Mass Extinction: We Aren’t The Dinosaurs, We’re The Asteroid -…
Extinction is an inevitable consequence of evolution. Environments change, new species arrive and crowd out the old, any number of factors make a formerly successful species unsuccessful.

July 4 2015, 4:21pm | Comments
Bookmark The Anthropocene Debate: Why is Such a Useful Concept Starting to Fall…
The term ‘Anthropocene’ has entered the climate change debate, and the question is whether it should stay there. It neatly encapsulates the idea that the Holocene—a scientific term referring to the…

July 4 2015, 4:21pm | Comments
Bookmark V. Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Gynocene: The Many Names of Resistance
In my past postings, I’ve pointed out how the Anthropocene thesis can be roundly criticized for its assorted failings.

July 4 2015, 4:21pm | Comments
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June 20 2015, 7:06am | Comments
Bookmark Why don't we just terraform Earth? — Hopes&Fears; — flow "Science"
McKay's research focuses on the evolution of the solar system and the origin of life. McKay is currently involved in planning future Mars missions and has authored a number of studies…

June 11 2015, 2:40am | Comments
Bookmark HIJACKING THE ANTHROPOCENE
What can lobbyists do when science contradicts their political messages? Some simply deny the science, as many conservatives do with climate change. Others pretend to embrace the science, while ignoring or…

May 26 2015, 5:08am | Comments
Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

May 8 2015, 4:02am | Comments
Bookmark This civilization is over. And everybody knows it.
The good news is: this civilization is over. And everybody knows it. And the good news is: we can all start building another one, here in the ruins, and out of…

April 21 2015, 3:07pm | Comments

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