We live in an age of geological movement. We are accustomed to treating the earth as a stable or static place that we live and move on but today this“stable” ground is becoming increasingly unstable. More people and things are …
taken from Strelka Mag Moving beyond the limits of assemblage theory, thinking of the Anthropocene as a system that can be observed and studied, can help us discover new political horizons—concrete solutions to the challenges of our time. Debates over …
Challenging the Assemblage Dictum of the (Post-)Anthropocene
Theory of the Earth reconsiders the immanent history of the earth from the perspective of the increasingly unstable mobility that de fines the Anthro-pocene. It thus provides a uniquely movement-oriented or “kinetic” theory of the earth. This methodology has two …
The first limitation is Deleuze ’ s theory of motion . If the flux of matter, like every other flux, is ontologically equal to every other flux, then we should expect to find in Deleuze ’ s pluralist ontology …
Prophylaxis is on everyone’s mind these days. Oh what a reversal from only a few months ago, when the decades long march of promiscuous ontologies seemed unstoppable. Are freedom and mobility unquestionable virtues? Should everything touch everything else? Until recently the …
This is such a shock to our geological imagination because our understanding of what the world is and how it works (our“ontologies”) have largely considered the Earth as something stable : as the static ground of being and knowing. The …