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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 414–432.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Philip Hüpkes; Gabriele Dürbeck Abstract This article focuses on an important aspect of aesthetics in the context of the Anthropocene: the situatedness of aesthetic techniques and operations within earth’s (changing) materiality. Aesthetics is not only a way of making sensible but also contributes...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 590–601.
Published: 01 November 2022
... stance of the antisocial queer theorist . . . the present and the future become mutually delimiting realms.” 37 In this special issue we argue that we cannot turn toward a future of Anthropocene scale without understanding the complex set of terms and categories invoked variously to define nature...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 64–86.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Jochem Zwier; Bas de Boer Abstract In coming to grips with the advent of the Anthropocene, contemporary philosophers have recently pushed beyond its many physical implications (e.g., global warming, reduced biodiversity) and social significance (e.g., climate justice, economics, migration...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 105–123.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal; Simone Kotva Abstract This article analyzes the theme of practicing for death as it has emerged in recent environmental discourse. In the first part, it situates Roy Scranton’s Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (2015) in the context of new critical approaches to death...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 697–708.
Published: 01 November 2024
... has three main aims. First, we seek to trace how figures of heroes and villains are imagined and deployed in multiple Anthropocenic “problem spaces,” and what narratives, claims, hopes, fears, and relations they undergird. 1 In this capacity, we suggest, heroes and villains can serve as diagnostic...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 784–806.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of blame for the contemporary climate crisis, influencing international policy and inspiring a range of technological and economic fixes to construct “climate cattle” as keystone species for a “good Anthropocene.” Interventions are centered on bovine metabolisms at different spatial and temporal scales...
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Seeing the Anthropocene through Montage: John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea and Elizabeth Price’s BERLINWAL
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 530–553.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Bergit Arends Abstract Environmental changes and the age of the Anthropocene demand new ways of seeing. This article contends that montage serves both as form and as argument in representing the modern Western experience of human-nature relations in the supposed Anthropocene. It suggests...
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 8. Soilkin exercise #8: Possible Flux performance for the post-Anthropocene (2020). Fluxus-inspired instructions as meme, dimensions and media variable. In reference to Luce Fierens, Possible Flux Performances or Postfluxgames , 1987, reproduced in Friedman, Smith, and Sawchyn
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 85–102.
Published: 01 May 2012
... focus on a traditional element (earth, water, air) in order to explore its co-constitution with the human, treating the element as active, or, in Jane Bennett's term, “vibrant matter.” In the Anthropocene, it is no longer an “intentional fallacy” to attribute human emotions to the environment or its...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 159–165.
Published: 01 May 2015
... to the Anthropocene, Plantationocene, or Capitalocene have to do with scale, rate/speed, synchronicity, and complexity. The constant question when considering systemic phenomena has to be, when do changes in degree become changes in kind, and what are the effects of bioculturally, biotechnically, biopolitically...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 149–153.
Published: 01 May 2014
... to address the concept of the Anthropocene? We have, quite intentionally, included essays that vary with regard to materials and approaches. What they share is a concern with the challenges of representing a concept at once wholly abstract and alarmingly material in aesthetically, rhetorically...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the implications of ME for the environmental humanities in general and for Anthropocene narratives in particular. ME relies on non-Darwinian evolutionary principles. In common with other branches of Earth system science, it also destabilizes prevailing ontological categories. Life becomes more material, matter...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 53–71.
Published: 01 May 2015
... millions of years. The loss of wildness thus elicits a loss of harmony. I consider these Anthropocene interpretations of silence, noise and dissonance by comparing the environmentalist concerns of Krause with responses to the Listening to Birds project—an anthropological investigation of bird sounds...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 May 2014
... that is the focus of the narrative and gives the book its title. Timothy Morton has argued that because we live in the Anthropocene we can no longer understand history as exclusively human. Pendell's “Chronicle of the Collapse” suggests that the same is true for storytelling, offering readers the story...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 217–232.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., delving into its history, its epistemological preconditions, and its representational capacity. In this essay, I suggest a connection between this attraction to a supposedly outdated medium and the representational challenges raised by the model of the Anthropocene. A first example offers Sebastião...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 256–262.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Sigurd , and Vogt Markus , eds. Religion in the Anthropocene . Eugene, OR : Wipf and Stock , 2017 . Francis Pope . Laudato si’ . Vatican City : Vatican Press , May 24 , 2015 . w2.vatican.va/content/dam/francesco/pdf/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 233–260.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Noel Castree Abstract “The Anthropocene” is now a buzzword in international geoscience circles and commanding the attention of various social scientists and humanists. Once a trickle, I review what is now a growing stream of publications authored by humanists about the Holocene's proclaimed end. I...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 233–238.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and is not altered or transformed. To the dismay of those who first proposed it, the Anthropocene is being reframed as an event to be celebrated rather than lamented and feared. 1 Instead of final proof of the damage done by techno-industrial hubris, the ‘ecomodernists' welcome the new epoch as a sign...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 295–309.
Published: 01 May 2018
... stories from isolated places, and the mysteriously mutilated corpses of deer considers the significance of encounters with this phantasm for recent debates surrounding the proper understanding of the beginning of the Anthropocene and the implications of this for our sense time and responsibility...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 310–329.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... This is taken up fully by Joanna Zylinska. Despite what she finds as “shortcomings” in his humanist foundations, she writes nevertheless that “Levinas’ ethics . . . can be seen as a par excellence ethical framework for the Anthropocene because it makes me face up to the question of extinction across different...
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