The climate crisis leads us to think of our times as characterized by the coming together of three very different kinds of histories that are "normally" separated by issues of scale, causation, discontinuous archives, and methods of research: natural histories of the earth systems, the history of life on this planet including that of humanity as a dominant species,The climate crisis leads us to think of our times as characterized by the coming together of three very different kinds of histories that are "normally" separated by issues of scale, causation, discontinuous archives, and methods of research: natural histories of the earth systems, the history of life on this planet including that of humanity as a dominant species, and the much more short-term and recent history of industrial civilization or capitalism. This lectures seeked to draw out some of the implications of this proposition for how we think about human history, going forward. and the much more short-term and recent history of industrial civilization or capitalism. This lectures will seek to draw out some of the implications of this proposition for how we think about human history, going forward.
Lecture 1: Between Globalization and Global Warming: Towards A History of the Present
20 October, 2014, 6:00pm
Lecture 3: Climate and the Human Condition
27 October, 2014, 6:00pm
