Tag: environment

  • Crisis epistemology and the making of an Anthropocene rejection

    Crisis epistemology and the making of an Anthropocene rejection

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    This is an unpublished paper I wrote in the Fall of 2024 about the history of the term “Anthropocene”. As the BIGGEST next thing, the Anthropocene excavates as it flattens, unearthing publishing gold in a universal crisis narrative that might critique power, but stops a mile short of any challenge to power that might threaten…

  • Carbon Footprints

    Carbon Footprints

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    Are Americans accountable to anyone? I asked myself this question as I completed the Carbon Footprint calculator activity that was assigned to my graduate-level Sustainability course without critique or really any indication that the notion of an individual carbon footprint might be contested at all. My number came in at half of what the average…