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.
2022/2023
November 2022: Jean-Thomas Tremblay and Alice Jarry – Breathing Aesthetics
January 2023: Anne Pasek – Biocharmed – (Affective) Value Forms in Emerging Carbon Removal Markets
February 2023: Philip Aghoghovwia – Postcolonial Nature
March 2023: Sophie Chao – More-Than-Human Entanglements in the Plantation Nexus
2019/2020