Anthropocene – ENTITLE blog – a collaborative writing project on Political Ecology

Curiosity, relationalities and monkeywrenching: The futures of the Anthropocene

Posted on 9 October 20189 October 2018 by entitlecollective

by Daniele Valisena Daniele Valisena reviews the book Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene, edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero and Robert Emmett (University of Chicago Press, 2018). If curiosity is insubordination, Future Remains elevates it to a key role in approaching – and hopefully changing – the "human epoch". “I don’t particularly … Continue reading Curiosity, relationalities and monkeywrenching: The futures of the Anthropocene

Trashopolis! Storytelling, waste research and glocal conflicts

Posted on 17 May 201821 May 2018 by salvatorederosa

by Salvatore De Rosa This is a very personal account of an ethnographic immersion in the epicenter of an environmental conflict of huge proportions. That happens to be, at the same time, the place where I was born. It is an attempt at connecting the dots between individual existence, collective destinies and glocal ecological transformations. … Continue reading Trashopolis! Storytelling, waste research and glocal conflicts

Why “Warning to Humanity” gets the socio-ecological crisis (and its solutions) wrong

Posted on 23 November 201724 November 2017 by salvatorederosa

by Salvatore De Rosa and Jevgeniy Bluwstein The "Warning to Humanity" signed by more than 15.000 scientists calls for action to save the planet proposing elitist environmentalism and missing the real target. Instead, scientists should analyse the roots of the socio-ecological crisis and join the grassroots struggles pushing for structural changes from local to global … Continue reading Why “Warning to Humanity” gets the socio-ecological crisis (and its solutions) wrong

Climate politics in the long run

Posted on 25 July 201724 July 2017 by entitlecollective

By Romain Felli*. Stephen Schneider’s 1976 book The Genesis Strategy offers a stunning preview of contemporary debates over climate policies. According to philosopher of science Bruno Latour, the rise of climate scepticism in public debates reflects the lack of political engagement from climate scientists. He argues that, having restrained themselves to a discourse of … Continue reading Climate politics in the long run

The Banality of the Anthropocene

Posted on 14 April 20172 May 2017 by entitlecollective

By Heather Anne Swanson* There are plenty of troubling things about the Anthropocene, but one of its most troubling dimensions is the sheer number of people it fails to trouble. In response, we need to trouble the Anthropocene's banality, argues Heather Ann Swanson. I want to propose an Anthropocene territorialization and a subject-making project in … Continue reading The Banality of the Anthropocene

Tyrannocene, Carnival, Earth

Posted on 20 September 201621 September 2016 by entitlecollective

By Richard Bater* Snowpiercer, a 2013 science fiction film by Bong Joon-Ho, takes us on a post-apocalyptic train ride through Earth. In this blog post, Richard creatively refracts the plot of the film to consider several strands of political thought concerning the anthropocene and human-environment relations. Jean-Marc Rochette, a French illustrator and comics creator, wrote … Continue reading Tyrannocene, Carnival, Earth

Of the Titanic, the Bounty, and Other Shipwrecks

Posted on 16 August 20165 December 2016 by entitlecollective

By Marco Armiero* In this essay, environmental historian Marco Armiero presents three metaphors of the Anthropocene and discusses why words, and class, still matter. Periodically humans have to pay for their sins. Last time that a more than human entity asked them to pay the bill, it was the Deluge. Maybe everything starts from there. It … Continue reading Of the Titanic, the Bounty, and Other Shipwrecks

Call for the ‘Stories of the Anthropocene’ Festival, Stockholm 27-29 October 2016

Posted on 17 May 201612 May 2016 by entitlecollective

A state of shock is something that happens to us not only when something bad happens. It's what happens to us when we lose our narrative, when we lose our story, when we become disoriented. - Naomi Klein The KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, in collaboration with the Rachel Carson Center and the Nelson Institute Center … Continue reading Call for the ‘Stories of the Anthropocene’ Festival, Stockholm 27-29 October 2016

The Titanic, a lifeboat, or the Bounty? Or why class still matters in the Anthropocene

Posted on 12 May 20165 December 2016 by entitlecollective

“Arrogant and short-sighted leadership; distracted people dancing on the boat; and poor preparation for the catastrophe”. Marco Armiero discusses three narratives of the Anthropocene and why the stories we tell are so important. In the end, it does not matter how well equipped or prepared the boat is; only mutiny can change its course. A mutiny, a … Continue reading The Titanic, a lifeboat, or the Bounty? Or why class still matters in the Anthropocene

Post-capitalist ecologies: energy, money and “value” in the Anthropocene

Posted on 7 April 201619 April 2016 by entitlecollective

by Alf Hornborg* To focus on the exploitative and destructive logic of the very idea of money might finally help us envisage the end of capitalism. Envisaging an end to capitalism is no doubt preferable to imagining the end of the world, even if it is more difficult. I maintain that any vision of “post-capitalism” … Continue reading Post-capitalist ecologies: energy, money and “value” in the Anthropocene