How does our understanding of “the human” have to change to account for our unevenly distributed geological agency?

Representing the Anthropocene Reader Series 2019-2020: Reading List

Winter 2020 Reading List

January 10, 2020:
Bubandt, Nils. “Haunted Geologies: Spirits, Stones, and the Necropolitics of the Anthropocene.” From Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, ed. Anna Tsing et al., U of Minnesota P, 2017, pp. G121-G142.

January 31, 2020:
Crist, Eileen. “On The Poverty of Our Nomenclature.” From Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism. ed. Jason M. Moore, PM P, 2016, pp. 14-33.

February 14, 2020:
Latour, Bruno. Selections from Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime. Polity, 2018.

March 6, 2020:
LeMenager, Stephanie.“Climate Change and the Struggle for Genre.” From Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times, eds. Tobias Menely and Jesse Oak Taylor. Pennsylvania State UP, 2017, pp. 220-238.

April 3, 2020:
Seymour, Nicole. “Climate Change is a Drag and Camping Can Be Campy: On Queer Environmental Performance.” From Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age, U of Minnesota P, 2018, pp. 111-148.

April 24, 2020:
Yusoff, Katheryn. “Golden Spikes and Dubious Origins.” A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None, U of Minnesota P, 2018, pp. 23-64.


Winter 2019 Reading List:

Claire Colebrooke’s “We Have Always Been Post-Anthropocene: The Anthropocene Counterfactual” Anthropocene Feminism (2017)

Nick Dyer-Witheford’s “Struggles in the Planet Factory: Class Composition and Global Warming” Interrogating the Anthropocene 2018: 75-103

Margret Grebowicz’s “Glacial Time and Lonely Crowds: The Social Effects of Climate Change as Internet Spectacle” Environmental Humanities (2014) 5.1: 1-22.

Eben Kirksey “Queer Love, Gender Bending Bacteria, and Life after the Anthropocene” Theory, Culture and Society 0.0 2018: 1-23.

Nicholas de Pencier “Evidence” Anthropocene (2018: 205-207)