STS Circle at Harvard [image.png] Andrew Barry University College London, Human Geography
on Interrogating the Anthropocene Monday, November 25 12:15-2:00 pm Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Room 119 [image.png] Lunch is provided if you RSVP. Please RSVP to sts<mailto:[email protected]>@hks.harvard.edu<mailto:[email protected]> by 5pm Wednesday, November 20. Abstract: How should researchers in science and technology studies understand the emergence and development of the idea of the anthropocene? Does it represent a new era in the history of the global environment, or is it a manifestation of the increasing engagement of geoscientists with questions of environmental governance? Is the anthropocene the latest term in a long history of ideas about the impact of human activity on the Earth’s ecosystems, or should it be understood as a reflection of the accelerating impact of human activity from the late-20th century onwards? In this paper I interrogate the political history of the anthropocene. I highlight, in particular, the relation between interest in the anthropocene and the growth of efforts to monitor, measure and mitigate environmental impacts. Biography: Andrew Barry is Professor of Human Geography at University College London. He is the author ofPolitical Machines: Governing a Technological Society (2001) and Material Politics: Disputes along the Pipeline (2013), and co-editor of Foucault and Political Reason (1996), The Technological Economy (2005) and Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences(2013). A complete list of STS Circle at Harvard events can be found on our website: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/sts_circle/ Follow us on Facebook: STS@Harvard<http://www.facebook.com/HarvardSTS> _______________________________________________
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