This film examines attempts by communities and experts around the world to protect their water resources in the face of global warming, pollution, and political conflict.
Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene addresses a set of contemporary issues involving knowledge and science from a constructivist-pragmatist perspective often labeled “relativism.”
Greta Gaard on “Approaches to Sustainable Happiness.”
A monograph on desert dystopias and the environmental origins of apartheid.
In Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene, Joanna Zylinska outlies an ethical framework that could help humans assume responsibility for various occurrences in the universe across different scales. Her goal is not so much to tell us how to live but rather to allow us to rethink “life” and what we can do with it, in whatever time we have left. The book embraces a speculative mode of thinking that is more akin to the artist’s method; it also includes a photographic project by the author.
A new perception of time is needed to help predict the long term effects of climate change on the environment as well as on human social systems.
The Neganthropocene is a collection of essays and lectures focusing on the Anthropocene and the vast semantic horizon it encompasses, from philosophy to politics and the arts, through a renewed thought of the concepts of entropy and negentropy.
Director Tomoko Kana compares three islands in different geographies and their adaptation to the impact of climate change through a portrayalof the inhabitants’ daily lives.
This film explores the Occupy protests and similar activist movements and what their vision for the world is.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Candace Fujikane is interviewed on her book, Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai’i.
