[ecrea] Politics in/of the Anthropocene [LCCT Stream CFP]

CFP Politics in/of the Anthropocene
Stream for London Conference on Critical Thought 2018 organized by David 
Chandler and Harshavardhan Bhat

Deadline : March 26 2018
Submission : Proposals of not more that 250 words to be sent to 
(paper-subs /at/ londoncritical.org) <mailto:(paper-subs /at/ londoncritical.org)>

Event date : 29, 30 June 2018
Event location : University of Westminster, London
Event Details : http://londoncritical.org/

The 7th annual London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT), hosted by 
the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University 
of Westminster, will offer a space for an interdisciplinary exchange of 
ideas for scholars who work with critical traditions and concerns. 
Central to the vision of the conference is an inter-institutional, 
non-hierarchal, and accessible event that makes a particular effort to 
embrace emergent thought and the participation of emerging academics, 
fostering new avenues for critically-oriented scholarship and collaboration.
​ The event is free but registration is required. ​


The Anthropocene – the new geological epoch of humanity’s own making – 
promises to be a major challenge to scholars across disciplines. This 
stream is interested in panels, papers, conversations and performances 
that explore the politics of and in the Anthropocene. Does politics 
transform in the Anthropocene? What are its politics? As Timothy Morton 
prominently argued, the advent of the Anthropocene marks ‘the end of the 
world’ – not (only) physically, as ecological catastrophe at planetary 
scale, but also in a philosophical sense. The Anthropocene collapses the 
foundations of modernity: subject-centred rationalism and Anthropocene 
norms, discourses and regulations. The speed and energy of planetary 
changes overwhelm existing political institutions – from national 
parliaments to international organizations, from linear views of life to 
highly complex scenes of inter-species entanglements (Haraway). For 
some, the realization of the Anthropocene leaves little hope for futural 
politics. They paint a bleak scenario in which Anthropocene politics 
resembles a mere management of the postapocalyptic present: the 
governance of polluted oceans, flooded cities and deserted landscapes. 
In this new world, survival is all we can hope for. Others, however, 
paint a more optimistic picture. For them, the collapse of the modernist 
universe represents a unique possibility: to decolonise contemporary 
approaches (Demos) and understandings, to become attuned (Myers, 
Shapiro) to the needs of nonhumans (Tsing), to (re)discover non-western 
indigenous cosmologies (Kohn, de Castro) and cultures (la Cadena), to 
renegotiate core political ideas including security, participation, 
well-being and care (de la Bellacasa), and to establish new forms of 
(cosmo-)political cooperation. For contemporary critical thought, the 
Anthropocene is a momentous opportunity to rethink things. So this 
stream is an invitation for proposals on the politics of/in the 
Anthropocene and what this might mean for contemporary critical thought 
today, and to-come.

Suggestions for prospective panels (not limited to): • Decolonising the 
Anthropocene • Time, temporality and politics in the Anthropocene • 
Digital Anthropocene/Technosphere politics • Anthropocene security: 
risk, resilience and resistance • Atmosphere and toxicity • 
Architectures and surfaces • Sensing the Anthropocene: visuality, 
knowledge and power • Ways of 'Staying with the trouble' • Microbial and 
vegetal agencies • Oceanic and aerial flows • ‘Scale’ in the 
Anthropocene • Matter and Mattering • Ways of knowing in the Anthropocene

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