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ECS 748

Last Things: Life and Death in the Anthropocenes

Graduate

Winter 2026

Topics

  • Anthropocene
  • Climate change
  • Fossil fuel capitalism
  • Indigenous environmental thought
  • Climate activism
  • Environmental humanities

Readings

  • The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
    David Wallace-Wells · 2019 · required
  • This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
    Naomi Klein · 2014 · required
  • A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
    Kathryn Yusoff · 2018 · required
  • Moon of the Crusted Snow
    Waubgeshig Rice · 2018 · required
  • Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics
    Salar Mameni · 2023 · required
  • Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
    Donna J. Haraway · 2016 · required
  • How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire
    Andreas Malm · 2021 · required
  • This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
    required
  • Wallace-Wells, David. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life after Warming. New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2019.
    See source
  • Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
    See source
  • Rice, Waubgeshig. Moon of the Crusted Snow. Toronto: ECW Press, 2018. (available on-line at Mills)
    See source
  • Mameni, Salar. Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics. Duke UP, 2023. (available on-line at Mills).
    See source
  • Haraway, Donna J. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2016. (Available on-line at Mills)
    See source
  • Haraway, Donna J. “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene: Donna Haraway in conversation with Martha Kenney.” Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies. Edited by Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin London: Open Humanities Press, 2015 (pages 255-270).
    See source
  • Photographer, Chris Jordan (September 2009). [Photograph description: a dead albatross chick lies on the coarse black sand of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Plastic marine debris--fed to the chick by its parents—fills the chick’s carcass.]
    See source
  • Assigned film: This Changes Everything, directed by Avi Lewis.
    See source
  • Assigned radio series: Timothy Morton, The End of the World Has Already Happened, BBC Radio Four.
    See source
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