golden age of barbarians w/ james c sott
synthetic zero “How did so many of us, Homo sapiens, quite late in our species history, come to live in sedentary heaps of people, grain, and domesticated animals…
Author: jeremy schmidt
Welcome to the Anthropocene – Video of debate with Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler
Welcome to the Anthropocene – Video of debate with Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler (via Philippe Theophanidis) We no longer live in the Holocene. Welcome to the Anthropocene!…
Amitav Ghosh – The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
This new title from Amitav Ghosh, one the world’s finest literary minds looks very interesting. More at U Chicago Press here. I’ve put a series of four lectures…
Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece
Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece (via Sociological Imagination). Source: Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece
Water Is…
Internationally published author, teacher and limnologist Nina Munteanu explores one of the most important substances of Earth. Nina Munteanu’s “Water Is…” represents the culmination of over … Source:…
Latour’s new book assembles big names to “Reset Modernity!”
MIT Press has its new site live for Bruno Latour’s new book Reset Modernity! The book has many leading thinkers making contributions; description below for what looks like…
Marshall Sahlins on Hocart’s cosmic polity
Lecture from last Friday at SOAS in London; it starts around 30 minutes in to follow Hocart’s lead to comment on cosmology, governmentality, and anthropology.
Elizabeth Povinelli: New Book on Geontopower
Elizabeth Povinelli has a new book forthcoming with Duke, details here. The write up on the book is below, followed by a recent presentation on “Toxic Sovereignties in…
Deborah Cramer: The narrow ledge – a tiny bird, an ancient crab, an epic journey
Fascinating new book out from Deborah Cramer, description from Yale follows with a talk from Deborah Cramer below: Each year, red knots, sandpipers weighing no more than a…
Donna Haraway’s new book: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chtulucene
Donna Haraway’s new book is out in September with Duke University Press: Description In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers prov…
Three new books on the Anthropocene coming out this spring
Several new titles on the Anthropocene worth checking out (plus the one I mentioned earlier this week). Here they are: The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the…
New Earth Politics: new book out soon on politics in the #Anthropocene
Details from MIT Press Here New Earth Politics Essays from the Anthropocene Edited by Simon Nicholson and Sikina Jinnah Overview Humanity’s collective impact on the Earth is …
Jedediah Purdy on the Anthropocene, After Nature
I’ve mentioned Jedediah Purdy’s new book previously. It is an interesting read of American environmental politics and a comparison of different “environmental imaginations” tha…