Without the embrace of profound experimentation with existence, we cede the future and our lives to the billionaires and petty warlords, technocrats and politicians.
Stephanie Wakefield researches human-environment relations, urban resilience, and social-ecological systems thinking
Anthropocene Hubris
by Stephanie Wakefield
source: E-FLUX
Precarious Entanglement
In the Anthropocene—the current terminal period of neoliberal capitalism marked by climate change, environmental degradation, and social-political unraveling—calls to rethink human life abound. In response, a powerful subframe of Anthropocene theory—what we might name “precarious entanglement” or “dwelling in the ruins” thinking—forwards one way of doing so. For proponents of this perspective, the infrastructures, promises, and aspirations of modernity are seen as ruins themselves.1To think otherwise would be to miss the lessons the Anthropocene holds for us: modern humanism…
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hey there thinking about this as we watch the continuing horrors being visited on the remaining Rojava resistances by state-actors and wondering have you folks found any modern examples of non-state organizing (without previous ethnic ties) that has been able to successfully sustain a defense against warlords/gangs (without becoming a mirror-image militia in an endless arms race and war) after the abandonment of an urban area by the state? thanks, d.
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