The invention of nature: new book from Andrea Wulf on Alexander von Humboldt
This looks like a fabulous new biography, and it’s already getting rave reviews. Here is a description, and hopefully a video…vimeo is always fussy about this stuff. “The…
Tag: anthropocene
Seeds of a good Anthropocene website/blog launched
There is a growing rift over what the Anthropocene entails. Will is be a catastrophe or does it present opportunities? One new website looking for the seeds of…
When did the Anthropocene begin? A series of essays offering socialist takes
From the editor of the journal Climate and Capitalism, this piece is an interesting read. It is itself one of a series of essays being posted here by…
Anthropologies #21: Is There Hope for an Anthropocene Anthropology?
Up next for this issue we have Todd Sanders and Elizabeth Hall. Sanders is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He has written extensively…
New book – After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene by Jedediah Purdy
Interesting new title from Harvard University Press can be found here: After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world…
New book – Ecological economics for the Anthropocene: an emerging paradigm
Just out from Columbia University Press: Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene: An Emerging Paradigm Edited by Peter G. Brown and Peter Timmerman Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene provides…
Special Issue on Geographies in the Anthropocene from Geographical Research
Some interesting looking papers in the latest issue of Geographical Research on the Anthropocene, the full table of contents is here.
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…
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: