anthropocene

Chicago

climate

nationality

Australian

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cultural theorist

university professor

Pennsylvania State University

innovator in the field of

cultural theory

philosopher

is an idea that evokes the prospect of human extinction, and thus a world from which any experiencing, knowing, perceiving human subject is radically absent.

term Anthropocene evokes at the same time the prospect of human extinction, and thus of a world from which any experiencing, knowing, perceiving human subject is radically absent. '

is a city possessed of a strange metaphysical elegance of death.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.Claes Oldenburg

is at once an enclosing notion and a disturbing figure, for it binds the human species together as a unity of destructive power.

Climate is at once an enclosing notion, imagined as the bounded milieu that is unavoidably ours, and a disturbing figure, for it is with the recognition that there is climate, or that the human species is now recognizable as a being that for all its seeming diversity is nevertheless bound into a unity of destructive power.

is at once our necessary, sustaining milieu and the web that holds us together in risked life.

It becomes possible to think of climate as the milieu that is necessary for our ongoing life, and as the fragile surface that holds us all together in one web of risked life, even if we cannot practically grasp or manage the dynamics of this totality (Gardiner 2006).

Claire Colebrook

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