Clive Hamilton on “The Banality of Ethics in the Anthropocene”
Over the last two days, Clive Hamilton published a pair of essays that argue ethics in the Anthropocene are moot. The first essay largely lays out the problems…
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New book from Anna Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, coming from Princeton this September, details here. Matsutake is the most valuable…
Keywords for the Age of Austerity 19: Resilience
Originally posted on Keywords for the Age of Austerity: Resilience, n., “Elasticity; the power of resuming an original shape or position after compression, bending, etc.” “The quality or…
McKenzie Wark on Molecular Red: theory for the anthropocene
I found Wark’s recent book quite good, and it has produced some interesting conversation between Zizek and Wark as well. Here is a recent talk:
Mass Extinction, Security & Intervention in the Anthropocene
Originally posted on synthetic zero: “No Promises: Mass Extinction, Security and Intervention in the Anthropocene The concept of ‘security’ is paradoxical. It acknowledges the fragility of life and…
Isabelle Stengers’ Constructivist Reading of Whitehead’s Process & Reality
Originally posted on synthetic zero: http://t3h.hfk-bremen.de/papers/Stengers%20-%20Constructivist%20Reading.pdf and from friend of the blog and source of knowledge-ecology.com View original