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# 65
Extinction as Usual?: Geo-Social Futures and Left Optimism
Rory Rowan
Back to Geo-Social Futures
The concept of the Anthropocene, the so-called geological age of man, has become pervasive in recent years, marking one of those rare instances when an idea from the natural sciences gains wider purchase on the popular imagination, as evolution, thermodynamics, and Gaia have before it. Although the concept remains contentious within the Earth sciences—the International Commission on Stratigraphy is debating whether it should be adopted within the scientific…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Anthropocene, Extinction, Environment
# 58
SO NOW!: On Normcore
Rory Rowan
One of my concerns over the last few years is what I see as a certain fear within some domains of left thought—the fear that, because we have repudiated any normative grounds for adjudicating between arrangements of existence, we must be blind to how our actions extinguish (kill) another way of life … the question must be what arrangements of existence do we want to try to pull into place or remain in place rather than disaggregating good essences from bad essences. In other words, the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2014
Category
Philosophy, Aesthetics
Subjects
Fashion, Mass Media & Entertainment, Pop Culture