Special Issue Alert! Geosocial Formations and the Anthropocene in Theory, Culture & Society
“For at least two centuries most social thought has taken the earth to be the stable platform upon which dynamic social processes play out. Both climate change and the Anthropocene thesis – with their enfolding of dramatic geologic change into the space-time of social life – are now provoking social thinkers into closer engagement with earth science. [This special issue] attempts to open up the categories of social thought to a deeper understanding of earth processes. This includes attempts to consider how social and political agency is both constrained and made possible by the forces of the earth itself. It also involves efforts to think beyond existing dependencies of social worlds upon particular geological strata and to imagine alternative ‘geosocial’ futures.”
- from the introductory essay, “Geosocial Formations and the Anthropocene”
Articles
Geosocial Formations and the Anthropocene |
Nigel Clark, Kathryn Yusoff |
The Politics of Climate Change Is More Than the Politics of Capitalism |
Dipesh Chakrabarty |
Sex and the (Anthropocene) City |
Claire Mary Colebrook |
Why Gaia is not a God of Totality |
Bruno Latour |
Petrifying Earth Process: The Stratigraphic Imprint of Key Earth System Parameters in the Anthropocene |
Jan Zalasiewicz, Will Steffen, Reinhold Leinfelder, Mark Williams, Colin Waters |
Geosocial Strata |
Kathryn Yusoff |
An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz: Geopower, Inhumanism and the Biopolitical |
Elizabeth Grosz, Kathryn Yusoff, Nigel Clark |
We Are the World? Anthropocene Cultural Production between Geopoetics and Geopolitics |
Angela Last |
An Interview with Elizabeth Povinelli: Geontopower, Biopolitics and the Anthropocene |
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Mathew Coleman, Kathryn Yusoff |
Waste, Environmental Politics and Dis/Engaged Publics |
Myra J Hird |
Politics of Strata |
Nigel Clark |
Anthropocene Formations: Environmental Security, Geopolitics and Disaster |
Simon Dalby |
Gods of the Anthropocene: Geo-Spiritual Formations in the Earth’s New Epoch |
Bronislaw Szerszynski |