The Ends of Humans
Anthropocene, Autonomism, Antagonism, and the Illusions of Our Epoch
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2427597 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth A Povinelli |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 116 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 293-310 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-3829412 |
| OpenAlex | W2606045327 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 18 |
This essay explores the political efficacy of the concepts of autonomy and antagonism in the contemporary milieu of anthropogenic climate change and toxicity. It stages this examination through an imaginary colloquium attended by Italian members of the autonomist movement, geological proponents of the Anthropocene, the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, and the indigenous members of the Karrabing Film Collective. The essay asks, even as anthropogenic climate change and toxicity have created revolutionary ethical, political, and conceptual problems and antagonisms, what if the concepts of antagonism and autonomy no longer capture the strange condition of contemporary human and nonhuman existences? What if there is no human, or even any humans, but merely regionally more or less densely compacted forms and modes of existence, one component of which has been abstracted out and named "the human"? And what if these regions of existence are off-gassing in such a way that they are producing themselves as their own waste products
Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Autonomy · Climate change · Environmental ethics · Epoch (astronomy · Illusion · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology · Ecology · History · Law · Philosophy
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Introduction
The Return of the Nonhuman
A Construção De Um Mundo Onde Caibam Muitos Mundos
Entre a Palavra-Pensamento e a Palavra-Ação Zapatista
What’s in a name? On affect, value and the bio-economy
La performatività posthuman
A new climate for human nature? Navigating social theory through postnature, the anthropocene and posthumanism
Return to structural criticism
The geontological time-spaces of late modern war
No common cause? The spaces of urban collective identity
Climate Politics and Race in the Pacific Northwest
And yet it moves! (Climate) migration as a symptom in the Anthropocene
Don't wake up the dragon! Monstrous geontologies in a mining waste impoundment
About Time! The Abyss of the Future and End(s) of Subjectivity in (Climate) Dystopias
Wound-up worlds andThe Wind-up Girl
The White Possessive
Gilles Deleuze
The World According to Philip K. Dick
Reactivating the Social Body in Insurrectionary Times
Red Skin, White Masks
Face à Gaïa
Geontologies
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Warning
The Digital Cloud and the Micropolitics of Energy
Machinic Interagency and Co-evolution
Satellite Planetarity and the Ends of the Earth
État de siège
The Climate of History
The Capitalocene, Part I
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |