Anthropocene Reading Group
Coordinated by Will Davies, Richard Douglas and Nick Taylor, the Anthropocene Reading Group is meeting regularly to discuss some of the latest literature in the field. The reading relates to Goldsmiths’ work with CUSP, but is relevant to those interested in political economy generally, environmental politics and philosophy, and more. It is open to all—academics, non-academics, students—and no registration is required.
Meetings take place on Wednesdays at 4pm in the basement seminar room at the Political Economy Research Centre (PERC), 41 Lewisham Way, London, opposite the main Goldsmiths building.
For enquiries, please contact Will Davies.
Reading Schedule 2017/2018
Wed 13th June – Geoff Mann & Joel Wainwright (2018) Climate Leviathan
Wed 16th May – Naomi Klein (2014) This Changes Everything
Wed 21st Mar – Andreas Malm (2018) The Progress of This Storm
Read Richard Douglas review on our blog: Forging connections: Review of The Progress of this Storm and General Ecology
Wed 14th Feb – Déborah Kanowski & Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2016) The Ends of the World.
Read Jana Bacevic’s review on our blog: Anthropocene dreams: a review of Danowski and Viveiros de Castro’s The Ends of the World.
Wed 17th Jan – Oliver Morton (2015) The Planet Remade.
Read Nick Taylor’s review on our blog: Promethean Planetary Care – review of Oliver Morton’s The Planet Remade
Wed 15th Nov – Amitav Ghosh (2016) The Great Derangement
Archive
Wed 30 Nov – Jedediah Purdy, After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene (2015).
Read Richard Douglas’s review on our blog: “In the beginning all the world was America”
Wed 11 Jan – Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us (2016)
Review by Nick Taylor: Against environmental awakening
Wed 8 Feb – McKenzie Wark, Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene (2015)
Review by Will Davies: Making all things comrades
Wed 8 Mar – Gaia Vince, Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made (2015)
Review by Robert Butler: Reporting Climate Survival.
Wed 12 April – Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger (eds), Love Your Monsters: Postenvironmentalism and the Anthropocene (2011)
Review by Richard Douglas: A Progressive Anthropocene?
Wed 10 May – Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (2013)
Review by Will Davies: The uncanniness of climate.
Wed 14 June – Donna J Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016)
Review by Jana Bacevic: Critters, Critics, and Californian Theory.