Securing the Anthropocene: Discourses, Knowledge(s) and Techniques

Tuesday 27 February

Part One – Discourses

Seminar 1 (Tu 14:00 - 15:20) - What is the Anthropocene?

Readings:

* Dipesh Chakrabarty, ‘The Climate of History: Four Theses’, Critical Inquiry 35 (Winter 2009) pp. 197-222. http://www.law.uvic.ca/demcon/2013%20readings/Chakrabarty%20-%20Climate%20of%20History.pdf

* Simon Dalby, ‘Framing the Anthropocene: The good, the bad and the ugly’, The Anthropocene Review, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2016), pp. 33–51. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2053019615618681

Seminar 2 (Tu 15:30 - 16:50) - What does the Anthropocene mean for Knowledge and Security?

Readings:

* Madeleine Fagan, ‘Security in the Anthropocene: Environment, Ecology, Escape’, European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 23, No. 2 (2017) pp. 267–291. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1354066116639738

* Anthony Burke, Stefanie Fishel, Audra Mitchell, Simon Dalby, and Daniel J. Levine, ‘Planet Politics: A Manifesto from the End of IR’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2016) pp. 499–523. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305829816636674

Wednesday 28 February

Part Two – Knowledge(s)

Seminar 3 (We 14:00 - 15:20) - Mapping Assemblages – Nonlinear Knowledge

Readings:

* Craig R. Allen and C. S. Holling, ‘Novelty, Adaptive Capacity, and Resilience’, Ecology and Society, Vol. 15, No. 3 (2010) article 24. http://www.buyteknet.info/fileshare/data/analisis_lect/Resilience_Allen-Holling.pdf

* David Chandler, Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene, chapter 2 ‘After Neoliberalism: Mapping Assemblages’. PDF of the book is provided

Seminar 4 (We 15:30 - 16:50) - Sensing, Big Data and the Posthuman – Correlational Knowledge

Readings:

* Kenneth Neil Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, ‘The Rise of Big Data: How It's Changing the Way We Think About the World’, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2013. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/system/files/pdf/articles/2013/92305.pdf

* Elizabeth R. Johnson, ‘At the Limits of Species Being: Sensing the Anthropocene’, South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 116, No. 2 (2017) pp. 275-292. http://dro.dur.ac.uk/23130/

Thursday 1 March

Part Three – Techniques

Seminar 5 (Th 14:00 - 15:20) - Hacking and Sympoiesis – Knowing through 'Becoming with’

Readings:

* Donna Haraway, ‘Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulhucene: Donna Haraway in conversation with Martha Kenney’, from Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies (eds) Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin. https://lasophielle.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/ab1cd-artanthro_haraway_proof.pdf

* Invisible Committee, ‘fuck off, google’, excerpt from To Our Friends (2014). https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/system/attachments/2530/original/fuckoffgoogleeng.pdf

Seminar 6 (Th 15:30 - 16:50) - What is after the End of the World?

Readings:

* L Rist et al, ‘Applying resilience thinking to production ecosystems’ Ecosphere (open access) (2014). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/ES13-00330.1/abstract

* David Chandler, Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene, chapter 3 ‘From the “Black Box” to the “Great Outdoors”’. PDF of the book is provided