The Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network is hosting an event this autumn on the Anthropocene. Not only has the Earth become sensitive to the activities of humans, or least certain strata of humanity, but increasingly, ways of life—human and more-than-human alike—under late capitalism have become increasingly sensitive to Earth forces.
How do we sense the Anthropocene Earth? What does it mean that the Earth feels us? What might a politics that feels the Earth look like? The symposium will examine such questions—and others—through three elements that tie life together: air, rock, and flesh.
Speakers
Bronislaw Szerszynski | Lancaster University | “Life in the open air
Ilana Halperin | Artist | title tbc
Jamie Lorimer | Oxford University | “Probiotic political ecologies and the futures of life“
Discussants | Franklin Ginn (Geography), Craig Martin (ECA), Emily Brady (Geography), David Farrier (English), Andrew Patrizio (ECA), Michelle Bastian (ECA),
Chair | Michael Northcott (Divinity)
Attendance is free but places are limited.
To register please email franklin.ginn@ed.ac.uk with your name and affiliation
via Feeling the Anthropocene: Air, Rock, Flesh.
