For and Against the Anthropocene
A review of 'Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today'
The Standing Rock Syllabus Project
On behalf of the New York City Stands with Standing Rock Collective
Friction
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing has just published a brilliant book on the global trade in a certain kind of mushroom. As much as I’d like to report on it, I feel like I have to get my head around a previous landmark work of hers before attempting it. Here I’m thinking of her book Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 2005).
Tsing: “Capitalism, science, and politics all depend on global connections….