Franklin Ginn, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography at University of Bristol and Co-Editor of the journal Environmental Humanities, will be presenting “Storying Anthroposcenes” in the Greenhouse lecture series on Thursday January 30, 13:00-14:30 in Hulda Garborgs hus N-203/204. He will be a Greenhouse Fellow working in the Greenhouse Library from January 27 to 31, so feel free to stop by and chat with him during the week.
Abstract of his talk: In this talk I outline a route to enable scholars in the environmental humanities to engage with the imaginative challenge of writing Anthroposcenes – situated, storied accounts of geo, bio and other earthly powers. The talk proposes Anthroposcenes as synecdoches of larger Anthropocene narratives. As synecdoche, Anthroposcenes are not explanatory pieces of a large jigsaw puzzle, nor collectable or connectible in any straightforward way. Rather than jump to the global, they emplace the planetary; they keep our feet in the humus. The talk begins by reviewing recent developments in understanding the place of text and narrative in the Anthropocene. It then offers an example, The Ruins of a Once Noisy Shed, from a forthcoming collection. The talk puts Bruno Latour’s Anthropocenean cosmopolitcs into conversation with elements of Donna Haraway’s chthonic thinking, in order to outline seven precepts for writing Anthroposcenes.
