Anthropocene & Imaginaries of the Future

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The Anthropocene is a term proposed to indicate a new geological era characterized by the irreversible alteration of the bio-geo-physical processes of the planet, product of human activity. Undoubtedly, it is a problematic concept that opens up different challenges, both ethical and epistemological. At the same time, we have experienced how the effects of climate change have built a scenario of generalized anxiety about the fate of the Earth, and with it, of life itself. How can the critical analysis of images of the socio-ecological crisis help us to build alternative futures? From the production of collaborative and interdisciplinary visual and/or audiovisual works, The readings will include works by Marisol de la Cadena, Timothy Morton, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and texts oriented towards the analysis of images by authors such as Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Hito Steyerl and Susan Sontag, with the aim of providing theoretical references that problematize the recent inaugurated geological era called Anthropocene.