Interrogating the Anthropocene

This volume weaves together a variety of perspectives aimed at confronting a spectrum of ethico-political global challenges arising in the Anthropocene which affect the future of life on planet earth. In this book, the authors offer a multi-faceted approach to address the consequences of its imaginary and projective directions. The chapters span the disciplines of political economy, cybernetics, environmentalism, bio-science, psychoanalysis, bioacoustics, documentary film, installation art, geoperformativity, and glitch aesthetics. The first section attempts to flesh out new aspects of current debates. Questions over the Capitaloscene are explored via conflations of class and climate, revisiting the eco-Marxist analysis of capitalism, and the financial system that thrives on debt. The second section explores the imaginary narratives that raise questions regarding non-human involvement. The third section addresses 'geoartisty,' the counter artistic responses to the speculariztion of climate disasters, questioning eco-documentaries, and what a post-anthropocentric art might look like. The last section addresses the pedagogical response to the Anthropocene.

Enforces the importance art and pedagogy have in envisioning a sustainable perspective vis-à-vis 'the future in question' Presents a series of interrelated arguments focusing on key debates that are challenging the humanities today Raises questions for pedagogy on how to develop alternative narratives for the future of education to break from the current technological imagination

Auteur
jan jagodzinski is Professor of Visual Art and Media Education in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is the author of seventeen books to date in media, visual art, visual art education, and film.

Contenu

1. Struggles in the Planet Factory: Class Composition and Global Warming.- 2. Situating the Anthropocene Historically: Moving Beyond the Eco-Marxism of Jason W. Moore and John Bellamy Foster.- 3. Making Our Way in a World of Our Making: The Anthropocene, Debt-Money, and the Pre-Emptive Production of Our Future.- 4. Catch 'Em All and Let Man Sort 'Em Out: Animals and Extinction in the World of Pokémon GO.- 5. Intervals of Resistance: Being True to the Earth in the Light of the Anthropocene.- 6. Sounding the Anthropocene.- 7. Geoartistry: Invoking the Postanthropocene via Other-Than-human Art.- 8. Like watching a movie: Notes on the Possibilities of Art in the Anthropocene.- 9. FOAMA or You Make Me Feel Like Gasoline Looks on Water.- 10. Catastrophism and Its Critics: On the New Genre of Environmentalist Documentary Film.- 11. Slow Motion Electric Chiaroscuro: An Experiment in Post-Anthropocenic Landscape Art.- 12. Situations for Empathic Movement.- 13. Against Climate Stoicism:Learning to Fight in the Anthropocene.- 14. The Earth is Not Ours to Save.- 15. Pedagogic Fictions for Precarious Futures.