Theorizing the Anthropocene – part 1
The following thoughts are part of a longer response I have been writing in response to comments on my PhD dissertation proposal on the Anthropocene, Monsters in the Greenhouse, which you can find...
Anthropocene / political analysis / political ecology / pop culture / science / technology
by chriscrews · Published 10/05/2012
The following thoughts are part of a longer response I have been writing in response to comments on my PhD dissertation proposal on the Anthropocene, Monsters in the Greenhouse, which you can find...
Anthropocene / environmental politics / political analysis / political ecology / pop culture / science / technology / theory
by chriscrews · Published 09/02/2012 · Last modified 06/18/2020
In short, this project is looking at the concept of the Anthropocene, a scientific proposal to designate a new geologic epoch covering the past ~250 yrs that would mark the increasing impacts of...
It appears we’re one more step closer to the long-held human dream–or nightmare–depending on your take, to more human-like robots, with the announcement by an Italian team of scientists at the University...
economics / political analysis / prison-industrial complex / science / teaching / technology
by chriscrews · Published 04/27/2012
A Brave New World doesn’t really even begin to capture it all… There has been a slow but stead growth in the logistics of surveillance, whether that be of people or of objects....
Anthropocene / civilization / economics / environmental politics / political analysis / political ecology / science / technology
by chriscrews · Published 04/14/2012 · Last modified 10/08/2012
As I’ve discussed in an earlier post, the Anthropocene is a concept coined a little over a decade ago by scientists to describe the massive scale of changes happening to the Earth’s biosphere...
Anthropocene / civilization / economics / news / political analysis / political ecology / science / technology
by chriscrews · Published 04/11/2012 · Last modified 10/08/2012
“I do not believe that this legislation changes the scientific standards that are taught in our schools or the curriculum that is used by our teachers.” –TN Governor Bill Haslam on the...
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