• Examines human concern about the planet and how that fixation shapes concepts of time& space, knowledge-production, understandings of what it means to be human and non-human, as well as trends in scholarship, art, culture& politics. Indexes the way numerous actors and institutions came to understand, debate& narrate the Anthropocene, a geological epoch defined by human-induced climate change. Explores how it as a concept has opened up new ways of understanding relations within the planet, including care, accountability& multi-species mutualism. Considers narrative registers as well, how scholars, writers, artists& working people narrate the Anthropocene. Students undertake an original project in research&/or experimental narrative forms inspired by the reading. Limited to 12.

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