SOSC 2000 Quiz: WEEK 2 Lecture Outline - Critical Interdisciplinarity
21 Sep 2017
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As/sosc 2000 6. 0: interdisciplinary approaches to social science. Topic: nature-cultures and the need for critical interdisciplinarity. Readings: 1) jennifer sumner, relations of suspicion: critical theory and interdisciplinary. Capitalism. 3) c. bonneuil and j fressoz, welcome to the anthropocene. Recommended film: forget shorter showers: why personal change does not equal political. How does critical theory enhance interdisciplinarity: characteristics of a critical thinker, nature vs. society, why the term anthropocene is problematic. Pleistocene 2. 5 million years ago coincides with emergence of homo habilis (genus homo). A period of 11,500 years marked by climatic stability, a period of developing agriculture, cities and civilizations. Following the holocene, the swing into the anthropocene represents a new epoch. With the entry into thermos-industrial society based on fossil fuels, we have profoundly transformed the earth"s system"s biology and geology. Our industrial modernity, having claimed to free itself from the limits of the planet, is striking earth like a boomerang. transcendence of society, transcendence of nature.
