ECS 748
Last Things: Life and Death in the Anthropocenes
Winter 2026
Topics
- Anthropocene
- Climate change
- Fossil fuel capitalism
- Indigenous environmental thought
- Climate activism
- Environmental humanities
Readings
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
- This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
- A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
- Moon of the Crusted Snow
- Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics
- Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire
- This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
- Wallace-Wells, David. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life after Warming. New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2019.
- Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
- Rice, Waubgeshig. Moon of the Crusted Snow. Toronto: ECW Press, 2018. (available on-line at Mills)
- Mameni, Salar. Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics. Duke UP, 2023. (available on-line at Mills).
- Haraway, Donna J. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2016. (Available on-line at Mills)
- 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).
- 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.]
- Assigned film: This Changes Everything, directed by Avi Lewis.
- Assigned radio series: Timothy Morton, The End of the World Has Already Happened, BBC Radio Four.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Campus Store reading list ↗Winter 2026
- Course outline / syllabus ↗Winter 2026
- Watts, Vanessa. “Indigenous place-thought & agency amongst humans and non-humans (First Woman and Sky Woman go on a European world tour!)” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society. 2.1 (2013): 20-34 (posted on Avenue) Additional course readings or notes are supplied through the linked course source.