Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing - A Feminist Approach to the Anthropocene: Earth Stalked by Man
To take seriously the concept of the Anthropocene-the idea that we have entered a new epoch defined by humans’ impact on Earth’s ecosystems-requires engagement with global history. Using feminist anthropology, this lecture explores the awkward relations between what one might call “machines of replication”-those simplified ecologies, such as plantations, in which life worlds are remade as future assets-and the vernacular histories in which such machines erupt in all their particularity and go feral in counter-intentional forms. This lecture does not begin with the unified continuity of Man (versus indigenous ontologies; as scientific protocol; etc.), but rather explores contingent eruptions and the patchy, fractured Anthropocene they foster.
Anna L. Tsing is a Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz, and the acclaimed author of several books including Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection and In the Realm of the Diamond Queen.
This Helen Pond McIntyre '48 Lecture was recorded on November 10, 2015 at Barnard College.
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ahhh amazing! wish i discovered this earlier. I really enjoyed it. My favorite question was the very last one. Please, can anyone provide me with the name of the feminist posthumanist author writing on potatoes and the transfer of bodies ....thanks!
@HilsenNeela
2 жыл бұрын
amatsing!
@annakarolinemueller7292
2 жыл бұрын
I think it's Lucian Gomoll
Irony of ironies: her criticism of The Enlightenment as bearing the responsibility for our inheritance of the paradigm of a singular linear universal history is itself a cliche that assumes a singular unified period called The Enlightenment which, in truth, was marked by internal tensions and polysemic ambiguity.
@henryberrylowry9512
3 жыл бұрын
Not to mention she states that it isn't really the universal narrative that's done away with, but rather that a bunch of people experienced this event differently.
@jakabombac5153
3 жыл бұрын
This seems a bit too meticulous. "Not only" is a method that is very well established in modern anthropological circles, and the most important part of any method is to know when to use it. If she would have used it to try to define "enlightenment", she could, but probably she'd lose time on it + it would make her overall point less clear. She has a wide circle of co-workers, philosophers, anthropologists and other people who refer to her, whose work can provide you with the neccessary substratum to understand her references, including how the conceptualization of the enlightenment period is created within this wider humanist or scientific circle. Furthermore, she stresses several times that praxis is what uncovers a certain aspect of a certain history which is still here for us to see. If I am not mistaken, this is the point of many philosophers of history, including Gadamer. You will never be able to define a certain era with a bunch of facts about it, but in a way you already are a part of this history, all you need to do is start taking an attitude towards it. In that way, you need to start from a certain clear concept which you self-consciously accept as something which acquires more and more sedimentation, but starting from "clear and distinct ideas" would be a trap.