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Theory for the Anthropocene

November 25, 2015 • by Zeyno Ustun

Roy Scranton, Stephanie Wakefield, and McKenzie Wark participated in a lecture on the Anthropocene. Our world is changing. Rising seas, spiking temperatures, and extreme weather imperil global infrastructure, crops, and water supplies. Our greatest enemy, it turns out, is ourselves. The warmer, wetter, more chaotic world we now live in -- the Anthropocene -- demands an intensive rethinking of ...

Anthropocene Denial Bingo

November 12, 2015 • by McKenzie Wark

“We’re fucked. The only question is how soon and how badly.” (16) This is the refreshingly candid way Roy Scranton starts his small, intense book, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (City Lights Books, 2015). For Scranton, the first and last job of critical thought is to interrupt habits of ...

Anthropo{mise-en-s}cène

December 10, 2014 • by McKenzie Wark

So this is the Anthropocene: An historical time, perhaps even a geological time, in which what we think of as separate entities, the human and the natural, find their fates entwined. What was once a separate nature or environment is no in place to ground us as us. Not only is ...

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