Stefan Skrimshire
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Skrimshire |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Skrimshire |
| SIGNATURE | SKRIMSHIRE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Extinction and Religion
The View from Dunwich
Activism for End Times
To be labeled an "eco-millenarian" has invariably pejorative connotations, insinuating the use of catastrophic rhetoric of an ecological end-times to bypass rational decision-making and democratic processes. In this article I critically assess this association, and also consider whether new political concerns - the suggestion that we are in a "climate emergency" - lend a new credibility to the structure of millenarian belief for an era of climate…
Deep Time and Secular Time
The Anthropocene concept allows human history to be imagined within the temporal framework of planetary processes. Accordingly, some environmentalists increasingly favour massively lengthening the temporal horizons of moral concern. Whilst there are defensible reasons for doing so, I wish to take issue with the 'secular time' perspective underlying some such approaches. To make my case, I present, in the first section, two recent manifestations o…
Confessing Anthropocene
What is the best way to communicate with far future human (and/or posthuman) societies? This sounds like a question for science fiction, but I ask it in the context of a pressing issue in environmental ethics: the (very) long-term disposal of high-level spent radioactive fuel. To date, the moral justification for burying the waste underground has hinged on the technical possibilities of communicating a message of warning to people living ten thou…
Climate change and apocalyptic faith
For at least as long as the birth of environmentalism, discourses of ecological crisis have adopted, both consciously and unconsciously, themes and concepts derived from Jewish and Christian Apocalypses. These are ancient texts remembered best for their cosmic and spiritual revelations about the world and the world to come. The scope and methods of this adoption have varied widely: from symbolic representation (images of the Four Horsemen, for in…
Debate
2012: The Environmental Prophecy That Could Not Fail - Anne Fedele; The Revelation of Climate Change - Peter Rudiak-Gould; Facing the Apocalypse: Environmental Crisis and Religion - Terry Leahy; Challenging the Skeptics: False Prophecy and Climate Activism Stefan Skrimshire
“There is no God and we are his prophets”
Despite its overwhelmingly positive reception, the apparently redemptive conclusion to Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006 McCarthy, C. 2006. The Road, London: Picador. [Google Scholar]) attracted criticism from some reviewers. They read in it an inconsistency with the nihilism that otherwise pervades the novel, as well as McCarthy's other works. But what are they referring to when they interpret "redemption", the "messianic" and "God" in McCarthy's…
The end of the future
Future ethics
What Is Anti-Utopianism? Gray, Jacoby, Jameson
The subject of utopianism in contemporary political life has experienced a revival of interest in the last few years. One of the most polemical contributions is John Gray’s Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia. One of the greatest benefits of this book is to paint for us an accurate picture of what a contemporary anti-utopian looks like. For Gray’s position, it appears, is that utopian beliefs lead to ridicule at best and tota…
James Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia
James Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back—and How We Can Still Save Humanity (London: Penguin Books, 2006), pp. xiv + 177. Hardback £16.99, ISBN 0-7139-9914-4
Another What is Possible? Ideology and Utopian Imagination in Anti-Capitalist Resistance
When the World Economic Forum (WEF) met in New York in February 2003, thousands of protesters in New York and a simultaneous gathering of anti-capitalists under the umbrella of the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, adopted the slogan "Another World is Possible." Since then it has been used to define the spirit of various social causes, from anti-capitalist to anti-war movements. Is this the cyclical expression of utopianism that h…
Climate change and apocalyptic faith
For at least as long as the birth of environmentalism, discourses of ecological crisis have adopted, both consciously and unconsciously, themes and concepts derived from Jewish and Christian Apocalypses. These are ancient texts remembered best for their cosmic and spiritual revelations about the world and the world to come. The scope and methods of this adoption have varied widely: from symbolic representation (images of the Four Horsemen, for in…
Deep Time and Secular Time
The Anthropocene concept allows human history to be imagined within the temporal framework of planetary processes. Accordingly, some environmentalists increasingly favour massively lengthening the temporal horizons of moral concern. Whilst there are defensible reasons for doing so, I wish to take issue with the 'secular time' perspective underlying some such approaches. To make my case, I present, in the first section, two recent manifestations o…
Activism for End Times
To be labeled an "eco-millenarian" has invariably pejorative connotations, insinuating the use of catastrophic rhetoric of an ecological end-times to bypass rational decision-making and democratic processes. In this article I critically assess this association, and also consider whether new political concerns - the suggestion that we are in a "climate emergency" - lend a new credibility to the structure of millenarian belief for an era of climate…
Debate
2012: The Environmental Prophecy That Could Not Fail - Anne Fedele; The Revelation of Climate Change - Peter Rudiak-Gould; Facing the Apocalypse: Environmental Crisis and Religion - Terry Leahy; Challenging the Skeptics: False Prophecy and Climate Activism Stefan Skrimshire
Another What is Possible? Ideology and Utopian Imagination in Anti-Capitalist Resistance
When the World Economic Forum (WEF) met in New York in February 2003, thousands of protesters in New York and a simultaneous gathering of anti-capitalists under the umbrella of the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, adopted the slogan "Another World is Possible." Since then it has been used to define the spirit of various social causes, from anti-capitalist to anti-war movements. Is this the cyclical expression of utopianism that h…
James Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia
James Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back—and How We Can Still Save Humanity (London: Penguin Books, 2006), pp. xiv + 177. Hardback £16.99, ISBN 0-7139-9914-4
Another What is Possible? Ideology and Utopian Imagination in Anti-Capitalist Resistance
When the World Economic Forum (WEF) met in New York in February 2003, thousands of protesters in New York and a simultaneous gathering of anti-capitalists under the umbrella of the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, adopted the slogan "Another World is Possible." Since then it has been used to define the spirit of various social causes, from anti-capitalist to anti-war movements. Is this the cyclical expression of utopianism that h…
What Is Anti-Utopianism? Gray, Jacoby, Jameson
The subject of utopianism in contemporary political life has experienced a revival of interest in the last few years. One of the most polemical contributions is John Gray’s Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia. One of the greatest benefits of this book is to paint for us an accurate picture of what a contemporary anti-utopian looks like. For Gray’s position, it appears, is that utopian beliefs lead to ridicule at best and tota…
Future ethics
“There is no God and we are his prophets”
Despite its overwhelmingly positive reception, the apparently redemptive conclusion to Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006 McCarthy, C. 2006. The Road, London: Picador. [Google Scholar]) attracted criticism from some reviewers. They read in it an inconsistency with the nihilism that otherwise pervades the novel, as well as McCarthy's other works. But what are they referring to when they interpret "redemption", the "messianic" and "God" in McCarthy's…
The end of the future
Climate change and apocalyptic faith
For at least as long as the birth of environmentalism, discourses of ecological crisis have adopted, both consciously and unconsciously, themes and concepts derived from Jewish and Christian Apocalypses. These are ancient texts remembered best for their cosmic and spiritual revelations about the world and the world to come. The scope and methods of this adoption have varied widely: from symbolic representation (images of the Four Horsemen, for in…
Debate
2012: The Environmental Prophecy That Could Not Fail - Anne Fedele; The Revelation of Climate Change - Peter Rudiak-Gould; Facing the Apocalypse: Environmental Crisis and Religion - Terry Leahy; Challenging the Skeptics: False Prophecy and Climate Activism Stefan Skrimshire
Confessing Anthropocene
What is the best way to communicate with far future human (and/or posthuman) societies? This sounds like a question for science fiction, but I ask it in the context of a pressing issue in environmental ethics: the (very) long-term disposal of high-level spent radioactive fuel. To date, the moral justification for burying the waste underground has hinged on the technical possibilities of communicating a message of warning to people living ten thou…
Activism for End Times
To be labeled an "eco-millenarian" has invariably pejorative connotations, insinuating the use of catastrophic rhetoric of an ecological end-times to bypass rational decision-making and democratic processes. In this article I critically assess this association, and also consider whether new political concerns - the suggestion that we are in a "climate emergency" - lend a new credibility to the structure of millenarian belief for an era of climate…
Deep Time and Secular Time
The Anthropocene concept allows human history to be imagined within the temporal framework of planetary processes. Accordingly, some environmentalists increasingly favour massively lengthening the temporal horizons of moral concern. Whilst there are defensible reasons for doing so, I wish to take issue with the 'secular time' perspective underlying some such approaches. To make my case, I present, in the first section, two recent manifestations o…
The View from Dunwich
Extinction and Religion
Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works)