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English 287 - Winter, 2021
Topics in Literature & Media
Class Information
Instructor:
Boluk, Stephanie
CRN:
44520
Time:
T 3:10-6:00
Location:
Remote Instruction
Description
A Billion Anthropocenes: Making/Theory at the End of the World
Capitaloscene, cthluluscene, plantationoscene, anthrobscene. The recent emergence of the term Anthropocene?-of a planetary epoch deeply affected by human impact that describes the way in which global warming, rising sea levels, and species extinction are fused with forms of racism, imperialism, carceral capitalism, and colonialism-?has become a powerful tool for thinking the world on a planetary scale and in geological time. This course will explore the various ways in which contemporary theory and scholarship imagines ways to live, think, and make in the Anthropocene.
Possible Texts:
Barad, Karen. Meeting the Universe Halfway (2007)
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. "The Climate of History: Four Theses"
DeLanda, Manuel. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997).
Haraway, Donna. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016)
Loveless, Natalie, How to Make Art at the End of the World (2019)
Meillassoux, Quentin, After Finitude (2006)
Moore, Jason. Anthropocene Or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism (2016)
Parikka, Jussi. The Anthrobscene (2015)
Hayles, N. Katherine. Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious (2017)
Tsing, Anna. Mushroom at the End of the World (2015)
Wark, McKenzie. Capital is Dead (2019)
Yusoff, Kathryn. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Zylinska, Johanna. The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (2018)