Multimedia | interviews and talks
Reinhold Leinfelder on “The Anthropocene”
Reinhold Leinfelder, Affiliated Carson Professor as of 2012, speaks about his research concerning the Anthropocene.
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Multimedia | journal article
"SAD in the Anthropocene: Brenda Hillman’s Ecopoetics of Affect"
Laurel Peacock on Brenda Hillman’s ecopoetic practice and how we can shift our understanding of our affective relationship to the environment.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke, authors of The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, J. R. McNeill and Peter Egelke are interviewed on their book, The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945.
Multimedia | Env. blogs & websites
ClimateCultures: Creative Conversations for the Anthropocene
ClimateCultures was launched in 2017 and is a growing network for creative responses to the Anthropocene.
Perspectives
The Reverse of the Sublime: Dilemmas (and Resources) of the Anthropocene Garden
Serenella Iovino uses the garden as a lens to analyze the impacts of old and new forms of aestheticizing nature on the geology of our planet.
Perspectives Article
Anthropocene Blues: Abundance, Energy, Limits
Since fossil fuel consumption has been integral to the project of modernity, energy history offers one way of trying to understand the Anthropocene and link the histories of capital and climate.
Multimedia | journal article
"Introduction: 'Imagining Anew: Challenges of Representing the Anthropocene'"
Greg Garrard, Gary Handwerk, and Sabine Wilke, editors of the special section titled “Imagining Anew: Challenges of Representing the Anthropocene,” introduce this collection of essays from diverse humanities disciplines.
Multimedia | journal article
"Notes on Mineral Evolution: Life, Sentience, and the Anthropocene"
Paul Gillen explores the role of conscious human agency leading up to the Anthropocene, suggesting that the development of sentience in the Phanerozoic eon exerted an influence on the interaction of minerals and life.
Multimedia | journal article
"Genesis, Retold: In Search of an Atlas of the Anthropocene"
In the special section “Imagining Anew: Challenges of Representing the Anthropocene,” Wolfgang Struck’s essay examines the renewed attraction to the medium of the atlas in light of representational challenges raised by the model of the Anthropocene.
Multimedia | journal article
"Confessing Anthropocene"
Stefan Skrimshire considers the ethical question of how to communicate with future human societies in terms of long-term disposal of radioactive fuel. He proposes that the confessional form (as propagated by Saint Augustine and critiqued by Derrida) may become increasingly pertinent to activists, artists, and faith communities making sense of humanity’s ethical commitments in deep time.