Next Anthropocene reading group meeting Wednesday 13th March 3-4pm room 3910 at SIAT
The confliction of discourses gathered by the Anthropocene swerve through histories (and futures) of slaughter and dispossession, to technological utopias built on hope and community. As scholars of technology it is imperative that we engage with the material geopolitics of the technologies that we use. After all, would the behemoth that is academia even exist without its reliance on petro-capitalism and the resources and labour of those less fortunate?
By framing our thinking through this lens of global disparity we are asked to take a stance. How will we create the Anthropocene? Do we envisage an opportunity for life that could exist without the resources humans currently consume? Is ecological apocalypse just another egocentric fantasy in which humans get to save the day through their ingenuity? Or should we retreat into grief, and recognise our increasingly climate-changed fates as a historical continuation of the obliteration of certain groups of peoples?
With these questions and more, you are invited to come to our next Anthropocene reading group and explore with us the tension between hope and grief in the Anthropocene age. Please come having read: Ecomodernist Manifesto and Chapter 1 The Spectre of Catastrophe in Lesley Head’s Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene
Looking forward to see you there!