Feeling the Anthropocene: Air, Rock, Flesh

Symposium: University of Edinburgh

11:00-17:00 Friday 28 November 2014

Not only has the Earth become sensitive to the activities of humans, or rather certain strata of humanity, but increasingly, ways of life­—human and more-than-human alike—under late capitalism have become increasingly sensitive to Earth forces.

How do we sense the Anthropocene? What might a politics that feels the Earth look like? What does it mean that the Earth feels us? The symposium will examine such questions—and others—through three elements that tie life together: air, rock, and flesh.

Speakers

AIR

Bronislaw Szerszynski  |  Lancaster University | “Life in the open air“

ROCK

Ilana Halperin | Artist  | “Learning to read rocks”

FLESH

Jamie Lorimer  | Oxford University |“Probiotic political ecologies and the futures of life“

 

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