{"id":3682,"date":"2020-09-14T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/culturalmediations\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2020-09-14T14:11:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T18:11:17","slug":"guest-lecture-thinking-modernity-from-the-perspective-of-the-capitalocene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/culturalmediations\/2020\/guest-lecture-thinking-modernity-from-the-perspective-of-the-capitalocene\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Lecture: Thinking Modernity from the Perspective of the Capitalocene"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please join us in welcoming guest lecturer\u00a0Professor Nick Lawrence<\/a>\u00a0from the University of Warwick Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies Department.<\/p>\n

Thinking Modernity from the Perspective of the Capitalocene<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This talk examines a cluster of related concepts \u2013 modernity, \u2018enlightenment,\u2019 the Anthropocene \u2013 in response to recent debates around how to theorize, and periodize, what might be called the natural history of capital. The year 2020 has already seen the intensification of a series of so-called natural disasters (firestorms in Australia, Siberia and the American West; flooding in Indonesia, China, Sudan and Bangladesh; locust swarms in East Africa and South Asia; and, not least, the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic), disasters that continue to highlight the untenability of conventional divisions between human and natural history. At the same time, this year has witnessed a storm surge of social conflict in intimate relation with these seemingly natural phenomena, from refugee crises to hunger riots to \u2018civil unrest\u2019 over the systemic application of racialized state violence. Fossil-fueled sponsorship of climate skepticism notwithstanding, the case for reading social and natural environments as part of a singular, if profoundly uneven and striated history stretching back at least to the \u2018age of enlightenment\u2019 \u2013 not coincidentally, the age of plantation slavery and carbon-driven industrialism \u2013 has never been more compelling.<\/p>\n

In this context, it may be worth revisiting some of the foundational texts of critical theory \u2013 in particular, Walter Benjamin\u2019s \u2018On the Concept of History\u2019 (1940) and Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer\u2019s\u00a0Dialectic of Enlightenment<\/em>\u00a0(1944, 1947) \u2013 in order to excavate the place of extra-human nature within their understandings of enlightenment and capitalist modernity. How do these works speak to more recent attempts at grasping the logic of climate breakdown from the perspective of global environmental justice? How might we bring the range of concerns highlighted in 1940s critical theory \u2013 from the dynamics of class struggle to the domination of nature to the industrial production of culture \u2013 into common focus? And what do they suggest about ways of theorizing environment and culture together today?<\/p>\n

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Dr. Warwick is a member of the Warwick Research Collective<\/a> (WReC) at the University of Warwick and co-author of Combined and Uneven Development Towards a New Theory of World-Literature<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This lecture is open to all ICSLAC faculty and all students in the Cultural Mediations PhD program. Please email Dawn Schmidt<\/a>\u00a0to obtain the link for this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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