Critical Anthropocene Research Group

The Critical Anthropocene Research Group (CARG) is a collaborative group of faculty and graduate students based at the Speculative Life Research Cluster at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology. CARG investigates the cultural, historical and political roots of human-induced climate change with an emphasis on its origins in the history of empire, race, and globalization.

Our projects include research on the potentiality of language, narrative, aesthetic forms, and digital and material culture to redirect the culturally embedded positionality of ‘the human’ in our understanding of anthropogenic climate change. CARG also hosts a reading group and speaker series focused on scholars working in critical Anthropocene studies, energy humanities, critical plant studies, and postcolonial environmental humanities.