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“A feminist project of belonging for the Anthropocene”
CITATION: J.K. Gibson-Graham. 2011. Gender, Place & Culture. Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 1-21. ON-LINE AVAILABILITY: DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2011.535295 ABSTRACT: At the core of J.K. Gibson-Graham’s feminist...
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“Efforts to monitor and characterize the recent increasing seismicity in...
CITATION: D. E. McNamara et al. 2015a. The Leading Edge, June 2015, pp. 628-639. ON-LINE AVAILABILITY: http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/tle34060628.1. ABSTRACT: The sharp increase in seismicity over a broad...
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Seeing the Anthropocene in something good
Lake Whitney Water Purification Facility, Hamden, CT. Google Earth. Imagery date 9/19/2013. URL: http://goo.gl/maps/ZfQWL Recently someone asked me to point to something good in the Anthropocene. That...
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A postcard from the future
Conversations about the Anthropocene inevitably involve questions about the future of the Earth and its inhabitants. On this very blog, we’ve contemplated what the Anthropocene means in relation to...
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“The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis: A...
CITATION: R. DeFries. 2014. New York: Basic Books. BOOK WEBSITE: http://www.ruthdefries.com/book/big-ratchet/ ABSTRACT: The human species has long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough...
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Historicizing the Anthropocene: A Peek at Paris
Historians love questions of dating and chronology, and there are two questions about dating the Anthropocene. First, stratigraphy and other sciences have been searching for physical evidence for when...
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Loving the Anthr*pocene
My previous post was a provocation on refusal. How, I asked, might the Anthr*pocene concept naturalize and even magnify the violent, dispossessionary forces it purports to describe? And how might...
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Prospection and the Anthropocene
I’d like to share two recent items from the news that make a sobering pairing. The first is an opinion piece in the New York Times by psychologist Martin Seligman and Times science writer John Tierny...
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Et in Arcadia ars: Thoughts on Volcanism and Urbanism in Southern Italy, Part...
In Homer’s Odyssey (9.443), Polyphemus cries out “Nohbdy, Nohbdy’s tricked me, Nohbdy’s ruined me” after Odysseus, his captive and prospective meal, blinds him and eventually flees from his lair. The...
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Urban Metabolism and Degrowth, part 1
TITLE Democracies with a future: Degrowth and the democratic tradition CITATION: Marco Deriu. 2012. Futures vol. 44, pp. 553–561. ON-LINE AVAILABILITY: doi:...
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