Archive of Anthropocene

If biopower is the power to make live and let live, then what is geopower? What if the power that lay at the boundary between life and nonlife was becoming more important in the Anthropocene? McKenzie Wark approaches this question through a reading of recent work by Elizabeth Povinelli. 

What happens when the Anthropocene meets critical race studies? One answer might be that you get Kathryn Yusoff’s provocative small book A Billion Black Anthropocenes, (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). If geologists are going to name a geological epoch after ‘Anthropos,’ then it might be an idea to put that in contact with one of the deepest critiques of the whole category.

How should we think through looming climate catastrophe and how can an understanding of political economy help in our fight for climate justice? 

The problem is not technology or nature. The problem is how to organise societies at a global scale.

2017 demonstrated that climate chaos is happening here and now rather than in some distant future.

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, New York grassroots groups charted an inspiring alternative to disaster capitalism.