After the Anthropocene
The Photographic for Earthly Survival
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8124234 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Kember (0009-0009-2615-1329, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 348-353 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Digital Creativity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-6268 • E-ISSN: 1744-3806 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14626268.2017.1380048 |
| OpenAlex | W2760993113 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
This essay explores the relation between photography and future environments in the context of the Anthropocene. It is particularly concerned with the way in which Anthropocene debates highlight the following: climate change as a matter of human extinction and survival; agency as anthropos or Man and technology as problem and solution, cause and consequence of climate change (noting of course Heidegger’s critical reading of technology as the tool of man; its reduction to instrumental and anthropological uses). The essay contends that the Anthropocene, as the performatively named era of Man and his tools, is humanistic (with all of the normativity that this implies) and also that it frames the relation between photography and future environments in predictable cycles of extinction and survival, ends and beginnings that limit its potential for imagination and intervention. To what extent then, might a critical engagement with the Anthropocene help to liberate this potential and begin to outline a photographics for earthly survival
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Anthropocene · Archaeology · Climate change · Context (archaeology · Deep time · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Extinction (optical mineralogy · Humanism · Political science · Reading (process · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Ecology · Geology · History · Law · Paleontology · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |