Interrogating the Anthropocene

Description

This volume weaves together a variety of perspectives aimed at confronting a spectrum of ethico-political global challenges arising in the Anthropocene which affect the future of life on planet earth. In this book, the authors offer a multi-faceted approach to address the consequences of its imaginary and projective directions. The chapters span the disciplines of political economy, cybernetics, environmentalism, bio-science, psychoanalysis, bioacoustics, documentary film, installation art, geoperformativity, and glitch aesthetics. The first section attempts to flesh out new aspects of current debates. Questions over the Capitaloscene are explored via conflations of class and climate, revisiting the eco-Marxist analysis of capitalism, and the financial system that thrives on debt. The second section explores the imaginary narratives that raise questions regarding non-human involvement. The third section addresses ’geoartisty,’ the counter artistic responses to the speculariztion of climate disasters, questioning eco-documentaries, and what a post-anthropocentric art might look like. The last section addresses the pedagogical response to the Anthropocene. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvi Introduction: Interrogating the Anthropocene (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 1-71 Front Matter ....Pages 73-74 Struggles in the Planet Factory: Class Composition and Global Warming (Nick Dyer-Witheford)....Pages 75-103 Stuck in the Anthropocene: The Problem of History, Theory, and Practice in Jason W. Moore and John Bellamy Foster’s Eco-Marxism (Alexander M. Stoner, Andony Melathopoulos)....Pages 105-132 Making Our Way in a World of Our Making: The Anthropocene, Debt-Money, and the Pre-emptive Production of Our Future (Matthew Tiessen)....Pages 133-152 Front Matter ....Pages 153-154 Catch ‘Em All and Let Man Sort ‘Em Out: Animals and Extinction in the World of Pokémon GO (Jason J. Wallin)....Pages 155-174 Intervals of Resistance: Being True to the Earth in the Light of the Anthropocene (Janae Sholtz)....Pages 175-199 Sounding the Anthropocene (Mickey Vallee)....Pages 201-214 Front Matter ....Pages 215-216 Geoartistry: Invoking the Postanthropocene via Other-Than-Human Art (David Fancy)....Pages 217-235 “Like Watching a Movie”: Notes on the Possibilities of Art in the Anthropocene (Bradley Necyk, Daniel Harvey)....Pages 237-251 FOAMA or … You Make Me Feel the Way Gasoline Looks on Water (Mia Feuer)....Pages 253-255 Catastrophism and Its Critics: On the New Genre of Environmentalist Documentary Film (Michael Truscello)....Pages 257-275 Slow Motion Electric Chiaroscuro: An Experiment in Glitch-Anthropo-Scenic Landscape Art (Patti Pente)....Pages 277-298 Situations for Empathic Movement (Leslie Sharpe)....Pages 299-313 Front Matter ....Pages 315-316 Against Climate Stoicism: Learning to Fight in the Anthropocene (Ted Stolze)....Pages 317-337 The Earth Is Not “Ours” to Save (Nathan Snaza)....Pages 339-357 Dispatch from the Future: Science Fictioning (in) the Anthropocene (Jessie Beier)....Pages 359-400 Back Matter ....Pages 401-410