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Institution Central European University
Instructor Alexander Etkind
Year 2023
Tags Undergraduate lecture
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Politics of the Anthropocene

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The concept of Anthropocene, also known as the Gaia Theory, summarizes contemporary anxieties about climate crisis; global pollution; droughts and famines in the global South; heat waves and melting of permafrost in the global North; oil curse and climate denialism; and other global, regional and (sometimes) national issues. One of the novelties of this course is claiming that Covid-19, and other pandemics, have also been parts of the Anthropocene. We will survey our capacity to create solutions solutions to the problems we face, from geoengineering to vaccinations to reducing consumption to “doughnut urbanism”. Moreover, we will discuss new ideas about the relations between decarbonization and digitalization in hope that the new digital means of the public sphere, education, entertainment and remote work, could give us new solutions for the issues of the Anthropocene. The new public sphere as a self-regulating mechanism of Gaia is another novelty of the course.

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