Anthropocene and elemental multiplicity

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dc.contributor.authorJones, Rachel
dc.contributor.authorParker, Emily
dc.contributor.departmentTowson University. Department of Philosophy and Religious Studiesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-03T18:09:36Z
dc.date.available2021-03-03T18:09:36Z
dc.date.issued2017-03-01
dc.description.abstractOur hope in the present essay is to provide a figure for thought in response to what Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer first named "the Anthropocene." Our interest is not in providing a substitute for this concept, but in offering an alternative way of approaching the vast political-ecological work currently being attributed to it. We want to question the images of impending global catastrophe, the glorifications of human abilities to overcome such quasi-apocalyptic conditions, and the ironic celebrations of our 'natural' resilience and technological prowess that are woven through the calls to responsibility and action which characterize Anthropocene discourse. We draw our approach from a critical reading of the work of Luce lrigaray. lrigaray's project is part of a genealogy of feminist thought that predates the emergence of Anthropocene discourse and offers a sustained critique of the concepts of both Nature and Man. We share serious concerns about the limitations of lrigaray's project with regard to race and het eronormativity. However, we find her work helpful because of the way it combines two key strands: first, a critique of what she calls the hom(m)ogenizing logic of the One, whose refusal of difference(s) is as much an ecological as it is a political disaster; and second, a critical analysis of the hylomorphism which, she argues, has informed western conceptions of political life and of the larger ecological life of which the political is a part.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://read.dukeupress.edu/english-language-notes/article/55/1-2/61/135916/The-Anthropocene-and-Elemental-Multiplicity?searchresult=1en_US
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.format.extent9 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2kxbv-sdug
dc.identifier.citationJones, R., & Parker, E. A. (2018). The Anthropocene and Elemental Multiplicity. English Language Notes, 55(1), 61–69.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2573-3575
dc.identifier.urihttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/711464
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-55.1-2.61
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/21081
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherDuke University Pressen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtTowson University
dc.subjectAnthropoceneen_US
dc.subjectEcology -- Political aspectsen_US
dc.subjectlrigaray, Luceen_US
dc.subjectEcological disastersen_US
dc.titleAnthropocene and elemental multiplicityen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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