The new issue of the journal New Political Science features a review symposium on Timothy W. Luke's Anthropocene Alerts: Critical Theory of the Contemporary as Ecocritique, published by Telos Press Publishing. For one week only, save 30% on your purchase of Anthropocene Alerts by using the coupon code ALERTS30 during checkout in our online store.
The symposium includes the following articles:
Crisis Atmospheres: Sensing Life on Alert, A Visceral Response to Tim Luke's Anthropocene Alerts
Sarah Marie Wiebe
Anthropocene Alerts in the Covid-Scene
Kathy E. Ferguson
The Green New Deal, Decolonization, and/as Ecocritique
James K. Rowe
Staying Alert during the Great Acceleration: Anthropocene Ahead
Timothy W. Luke
Eco-Critique and Thought as a Force of Nature
Stephanie Erev
Writing from Experience: An Ecocritique of Anthropocene Visuality
Teena Gabrielson
Standing Our Ground: A Response to Reviewers
Timothy W. Luke
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About Timothy W. Luke’s Anthropocene Alerts
From the late 1970s, Timothy W. Luke has developed critical analyses of significant social, political, and cultural conflicts, with a particular focus on the entangled politics of culture, economy, and nature. Luke’s “ecocritiques,” many of which first appeared in the pages of Telos, advance a critical theory of the contemporary that takes aim at our ongoing ecological crisis, a period marked by rapid climate change, extensive biodiversity loss, and deep ecospheric damage. The essays collected here range across diverse topics, from the politics of the Anthropocene, Paolo Soleri’s urban design experiments, the Unabomber manifesto, the Trump administration’s attacks on environmental protections, and the informationalization of ecological change, to community agriculture projects, deep ecology, the symbolic politics of climate change treaties, Edward Abbey’s ecological writings, and the biopolitics of accelerationism and the Dark Enlightenment. Taken together, this collection documents crucial moments in Luke’s project of ecocritique as well as the commitment of Telos to environmental criticism, political theory, and policy analysis.
Praise for Anthropocene Alerts
“Tim Luke is a leading critical theorist of his generation, and the one who has been most attuned to the changing global ecology. These lively, varied essays span the forty-year period in which neoliberal globalization greatly enlarged the global economy relative to the biosphere and sharply accelerated resource throughput and production of waste. Luke incisively analyzes the sociopolitical and cultural responses to the accelerating ecological problems that threaten life on the planet.”
—Robert J. Antonio, Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas
“At a time when a diverse assortment of individuals seem to regularly invoke ecological destruction and climate change as deeply troubling signs of our Anthropocenic misadventures, Luke astutely unpacks the intricate relationships between capitalist political economy, culture, and nature that undergird and reinforce these devastating developments. A must-read for critical theorists, activists, and concerned citizens!”
—Bradley J. Macdonald, Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University
