Posts tagged: anthropocene

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  Disaster Communism

  In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, New York grassroots groups charted an inspiring alternative to disaster capitalism.

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  Sinking Feelings: Of Glaciers, Zombies, and Catastrophic Affect

  Official assessments radically underestimate the magnitude of warming experienced by city dwellers today. To live in a large city today is to be on the edge of the most rapidly changing environmental conditions ever experienced by humans.

• Five Book Plan: Cities and Climate Change — Five Years After Hurricane Sandy

  On the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Ashley Dawson provides a select list of books and resources for assessing the history and future of cities facing climate change. 

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  Who Lit This Fire? Approaching the History of the Fossil Economy

  Outside of hard climate science, history should be the preeminent field for the study of global warming.

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  Video: Jason W. Moore — “To Make Ourselves the Masters and Possessors of Nature”: Dutch Capitalism and the World-Ecological Revolution of the Long Seventeenth Century

  Jason Moore on the origins of the twenty-first century's "distinct, but mutually formative" crises of capitalism and ecology.

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  Bruno Latour: Occupy Earth

  In General Intellects, I offer condensed versions of twenty-one leading thinkers across a range of fields. but I did not include figures in anthropology, as I am still working my way through reading in what's going on there. I have been finding some exciting stuff. Elsewhere, I wrote about Anna Tsing and Achille Mbembe and Eduardo Viveros de Castro. Here I offer a critical account of the recent work of Bruno Latour on the occasion of the publication of his lectures Facing Gaia. 

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  Racial Capitalocene

  Is the Anthropocene racial?

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  On the Obsolescence of the Bourgeois Novel in the Anthropocene

  How can cultural workers respond to climate change? Can the cultural work of responding to climate change be a global conversation? In his latest addition to his General Intellects collection of critical appreciations, McKenzie Wark writes about the novelist Amitav Ghosh's influential lectures on "the great derangement."

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  Video: Jason W. Moore – Our Capitalogenic World: Humanity, Nature, and the Making of a Planetary Crisis

  Charting the development of capitalism as a “world-ecology,” understood as a system of power, capital, and nature, Moore shows how the planetary crisis today cannot be adequately understood as a conflict of “humans” and “nature.”

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  Eduardo Viveiros de Castro: In and Against the Human

  In General Intellects, I offer condensed versions of twenty-one leading thinkers across a range of fields. but I did not include figures in anthropology, as I am still working my way through reading in what's going on there. I have been finding some exciting stuff. Elsewhere, I wrote about Anna Tsing and Achille Mbembe. Here's my report on the work of Brazilian anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, author of the brilliant Cannibal Metaphysics, including notes on a recent collaboration with the Brazilian philosopher Déborah Danowski, called The Ends of the World.

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  A Joint and a Compass: Razmig Keucheyan on political theory today

  

  There is a famous line in Lenin saying that "without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement." That is a very profound phrase. Theory serves for two things: to join together struggles that are apparently unrelated, and also as a compass in periods of crisis. It is what tells you whether in this precise moment you should be smashing up banks or standing in elections.

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  Speculative Aesthetics: Freeports as the Art Caves of High Finance