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Lesley Green Read Bio Collapse
Lesley Green Read Bio Collapse
Lesley Green is founding director of Environmental Humanities South at the University of Cape Town. She is the author of Rock|Water|Life: Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa (2020); editor of Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and Knowledge (2013), and co-author of Knowing the Day, Knowing the World: Engaging Amerindian Thought in Public Archaeology (2013).
Survivance
Architecture Essay
Posted: August 9, 2021
Category
Education
Subjects
Knowledge Production, Translation, Postcolonial Theory, Universalism, Ontology , Epistemology
Survivance
Thandi Loewenson, Betty Yu, Hock e Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Cushla Dares, Kaya Barry, Samid Suliman, Lesley Lokko, Ainslee Alem Robson, Michelle Westerlaken, Mique’l Dangeli, Loren S. Cahill, Tyson Yunkaporta, Natchee Blu Barnd, Kathryn Yusoff, Huda Tayob, Willem Larsen, Black Quantum Futurism, Erin Moore, Lindsay Bremner, Jenna Sutela, Markus J. Buehler, Caroline A. Jones, Mae-ling Lokko, Bailey Peryman, Kelly Dombroski, Maria Chávez, Amba J. Sepie, Joar Nango, Axel Wieder, Adjoa Armah, Vishwas Satgar, Carl Austin Hyatt, Emanuel Admassu, Jen Wood, Rasheedah Phillips, Gloria Pavita, Hawai‘i Non-Linear, Nityanand Jayaraman, Gordon White, Alice McSherry, Paul Moss, Sarover Zaidi, and Lesley Green
Architecture Project
Posted: August 9, 2021
Category
Indigenous Issues & Indigeneity, Language & Linguistics
Subjects
Decolonization, Blackness, Human - Nonhuman Relations
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Double US book launch: Duty Free Art and Supercommunity
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 5, 2018
Category
Interviews & Conversations, Surveillance & Privacy, Data & Information, Technology, Museums, Utopia
Subjects
Money & Finance, Publications, Freeports
Institution
In more than 60 texts, first published on-site at 56th Venice Biennale, artists and writers trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life.
e-flux Books
Posted: December 1, 2017
Category
Technology, Internet, Contemporary Art, Utopia, Surveillance & Privacy, Nature & Ecology, Migration & Immigration, Labor & Work, Globalization
Subjects
Biennials, Networks, Post-Internet, Contemporaneity, Anthropocene, Apocalypse , Art Criticism, Transhumanism, Cosmism, Social Media, Science Fiction, Psychogeography, Postcolonialism, Ontology , Nihilism , Knowledge Production, Internet Art, Institutional Critique, Immaterial Labor, Human - Nonhuman Relations, Artistic Research
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The Changing of the Gods of Reason: Cecil John Rhodes, Karoo Fracking, and the Decolonizing of the Anthropocene
Lesley Green
The dry semi-desert that is South Africa’s Karoo began as an ice cap on the supercontinent Pangea, when Euramerica and Gondwana were joined into one large land mass. The Karoo ice cap was kilometers deep and peaked between 359 and 299 million years ago. Planetary temperatures dropped in that period, since the evolution of land plants elsewhere on the planet took up so much CO2 that earth lost its greenhouse roof. 1
Many paleontologists think it was an early form of termites that ended…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Nature & Ecology, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Decolonization, Anthropocene, Environment, Climate change, Planet Earth , Extractivism
e-flux Project
Category
Internet, Interviews & Conversations, Labor & Work
Subjects
Biennials, Community, Digital Humanities, Apocalypse , Corruption, Planet Earth , Artificial intelligence, Artistic Research , The Cosmos, Cosmism, Networks, Biopolitics, The Commons