ANTHROPOCENIC PROMISES (Erik Swyngedouw)
Erik Swyngedouw discusses the Anthropocene, climate change, and depoliticization in his recent talk, “ANTHROPOCENIC PROMISES. The End of Nature, Climate Change and the Process of Post-Politicization.
47(1) and Other Good Things from Antipode
The latest issue of Antipode is out today, freely available online, and chock full of great titles. I’m looking forward to reading several of these, including the two on green grabbing and another two on…
CFP special issue “Deleuze Studies”: Deleuze & Guattari in the Anthropocene
Image: Nikki McClure A great call for papers from Hannah Stark and Arun Saldanha, for a special issue of Deleuze Studies. Deleuze and Guattari in the Anthropocene Twenty years after his death, Deleuze’s thought continues to…
CFP: ‘Not drowning but fighting: Decolonising the Anthropocene’
Image: Tokelauns protest during Pacific Warrior Day of Action (Te Mana: Litia Maiava) via ABC Australia An exciting call for papers from friends and colleagues Kathryn Yusoff, Anja Kanngieser, and Angela Last. Link from Mutable Matter.…
Labban on Bioaccumulation and the Planetary Mine
Image Credit: ingenuity lab Mazan Labban has a great piece in the Annals just out last month on “Deterritorializing Extraction,” which raises some important points about changing spaces of geo- and bio-capital as well as…
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Im/mortality and In/finitude in the Anthropocene
The Environmental Humanities Laboratory at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm has opened a call for papers for a great looking symposium, which will take place from December 2-4 in Stockholm. Organized around the themes of (im)mortality and (in)finitude, the symposium aims to “explore…
Conference: Thinking Mountains 2015
The Canadian Mountain Studies Initiative is organizing a fascinating interdisciplinary mountain studies conference. It will take place from May 5-8, 2015, in Alberta’s Jasper National Park. All information is available here. From the organizers: Thinking Mountains is a unique interdisciplinary event: a conference that aims…
Art, the Anthropocene and the iPhone 3G – Erik Wysocan (feat. Rory Rowan)
Below is a short text to accompany work by the Artist Erik Wysocan in The Fifth Season, an upcoming group show at James Cohan gallery in New York. The image included here is part of Erik’s work and shows a visual breakdown of the mineral content of an iPhone 3G. ///// The iPhone…
Visualizing the Anthropocene, Special Issue of Public Culture
The latest issue of the journal Public Culture is dedicated to the theme of visualizing the Anthropocene. It includes a number of papers and an interview with Rob Nixon. The introductory comments by the guest editors, Allison Carruth and Robert P Marzec, Environmental Visualization in…
Les Immatériaux: A Conversation with Jean-François Lyotard and Bernard Blistène
View of “Les Immatériaux,” Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1985. Art Agenda has posted an excellent 1985 interview with Jean-François Lyotard, conducted by Bernard Blistène, on the subject of ‘the immaterial’ and/or ‘non-material.’ Based on the 1985 exhibition “Les Immatériaux” organized by Lyotard, the central question in play is: “Do…
HWK’s Forensis
Pepe Romanillos recently drew my attention to HKW’s recent exhibition and project Forensis. Curated by Anselm Franke and Eyal Weizman with ties to the Forensic Architecture project at Goldsmith’s, Forensis explored the growing role of forensics in the making of ‘truth’ and cultural imaginaries. Projects included…
“Ontogenesis and the Ethics of Becoming” An interview with Elizabeth Grosz by Kathryn Yusoff
Environment and Planning D’s always excellent “Society and Space” open site has recently uploaded an interview with Elizabeth Grosz, conducted by Kathryn Yusoff. In this interview Grosz discusses her new book about questions of ontology and ethics, which draws on the philosophies of the Stoics, Spinoza,…
Beyond the Anthropocene’s common humanity
It is no secret that at Geocritique, we are as inspired by much of the work emerging around the concept of the Anthropocene as we are committed to critically intervening in how the term is read, taken up, and politicized. The recent forum in Progress…