Human by Peter Redfield
One almost feels sorry for the human these days. After a heady flight toward near divinity, the figure has tumbled, Icarus-like, down from the intellectual firmament to a posthuman sea of forms,...
View ArticleNew series: Climate change and health by Melanie Boeckmann
Climate change and human health is a topic of growing popularity and urgency in the public health community. In its draft twelfth working program the WHO repeatedly links climate change to negative...
View ArticleClimate Change and Planetary Health by Merrill Singer
Five years ago, the University College London Commission concluded that climate change is the biggest threat to human health in the 21st century. Health has entered a new epoch in which environmental...
View ArticleMultispecies vs Anthropocene by John Hartigan
An earlier version of this post first appeared on the author’s site, Aesop’s Anthropology. What just happened in Anthropology? In the 2013 annual meeting there were zero abstracts or paper or panel...
View ArticleWeb Roundup: Weather the Weather by Emily Goldsher-Diamond
Inspired by yet another prediction of snowfall tonight in Brooklyn, this month’s web roundup will briefly outline some recent looks at climate change. Over at Jacobin, Andreas Malm critiques the...
View ArticleAnna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s “The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the...
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Princeton University Press, 2015, 352 pages Yeah. What a nice book. Thank goodness there...
View ArticleConference Report: ‘Comment penser l’anthropocène?’ at Collège de France,...
November 5 & 6, 2015 – Conference Program and Videos The two-day conference ‘Comment penser l’anthropocène?’ (‘How to think the Anthropocene?’) at the Collège de France in Paris brought together...
View ArticleHumanitarianism in the Anthropocene by Sverre Molland
The decade has been conceptually rich for anthropologists. From multi-species ethnography to the practice of care, the past several years have seen a flourish of analytical concepts and theoretical...
View ArticleToxicity, Waste, Detritus: An Introduction by Pamila Gupta
Planet Earth has entered the time of the Anthropocene. For natural scientists, this means that human activity, taken as a whole, has come to rival geological and biophysical forces in its effect on the...
View ArticleResidue by Gabrielle Hecht
Waste and toxicity are foundational categories of knowledge for the Anthropocene. Consider how natural scientists approach the topic. Empirically, the “great acceleration” they’ve identified...
View ArticleBeach by Meg Samuelson
Beaches are good places to think with about waste and ruination. They were once generically places of waste (in the etymological sense of “unoccupied, uncultivated”) while recognized as actants in...
View ArticleLife/NonLife: a forum by Ann H. Kelly
This Somatosphere forum features essays written in the wake of a debate held at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. The...
View ArticleEvents of Disruptive Transformation by Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
We have been discussing the prospects of catastrophes of our own making for decades. We have been debating risks linked to anthropogenic climate change and runaway technologies, trying to fathom even...
View ArticleBook forum: Julie Livington’s Self-Devouring Growth by Todd Meyers
This book forum brings together seven scholars to discuss Julie Livingston’s Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa (Duke 2019), a story of what grows alongside...
View ArticleLife After Chemistry or A Carbon Anthropology
Carbon: a chemical element, C, fifteenth most abundant element in the earth’s crust, fourth most abundant element in the universe, second most abundant element in the human body, the key element for...
View ArticleAnthropocene Diseased: A Provocation
In late December 2019, health authorities in China confirmed dozens of pneumonia cases in Wuhan city. Preliminary investigations suggested the infection was likely transmitted from animals to humans....
View ArticleSelf-Devouring Growth as Development, Desire, Disease and Death
As the stark realities of our planetary predicament – ecological crisis, global pandemics, species extinction, intractable social inequality – become daily more visible, it is now widely argued that...
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