CSCT 2Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Adam Kadmon, Michel Foucault, Paul J. Crutzen

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
• Course: CSCT 2Z03
• Professor: Susie O' Brien

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Ex) 2009 maldives underwater cabinet meeting (cid:498)the anthropocene(cid:499) Human activity-> atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric, and other earth system processes. Ignores vast inequalities that mark both contributions to climate change and vulnerability to it. The elevation of anthropos to a place of central importance reinforces our already exaggerated sense of our own importance. Economist (cid:498)doughnut economics(cid:499) (cid:498)the safe and just space for humanity(cid:499) Emphasizes the unequal distribution of goods and of risks. Insists on the inclusion of justice as a key element of consideration. The reliance of our homes on our habitat. The earth as a habitat and our place as biological organisms within it. Emily potter(cid:495)s, (cid:498)climate change and the problem of representation(cid:499) The idea that our slow and uneven response to climate change is partly a matter of representation. Climate change challenges a natural but tragic human bias to be interested only in things that relate to us in the here and now.