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How does the plantation system affect the generation time?
The plantation system speeds up generation time. The plantation disrupts the generation times of all the players. It radically simplifies the number of players and sets up situations for the vast proliferation of some and the removal of others. It’s an epidemic friendly way of rearranging species life in the world.
Is the Anthropocene a species act?
This strengthens the illusion that turning all that is Earth into resource for humanity is inevitable, if tragic. There’s a way in which the Anthropocene is considered a species act as opposed to an historical, situated set of conjunctures that are absolutely not a species act.
Who are Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing?
Few scholars have been as influential as Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing in imagining new ways of being in a multispecies world at the edge of extinction. We were delighted to have these two creative and inspiring thinkers join us in a wide-ranging conversation on the Plantationocene on April 18, 2019. The conversation took place on the University of ...
Who is the author of the interview with Donna Haraway?
Edge Effects is excited to provide a full transcript of Gregg Mitman ’s interview with Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing, in an accompanying booklet designed by Nicole Bennett with Addie Hopes and Laura Perry. Click here to read —and we hope you’ll share it, too.
Who wrote the book Reflections on the Plantationocene?
Reflections on the Plantationocene: A Conversation with Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing. by Gregg Mitman · Published June 18, 2019 · Updated October 12, 2019. This is the sixth piece in a series on the Plantationocene—a proposed alternate name for the epoch often called the Anthropocene. The Plantationocene Series aims to create a conversation about ...
Who is Anna Tsing?
Anna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Between 2013 and 2018, she was a Niels Bohr professor at Aarhus University where she led the Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) group.
Who spoke at the Plantationocene seminar?
The first is that it’s the term that allows interdisciplinary conversation between natural scientists and humanists, and I think that conversation is essential to learning anything about what’s going on in our planet these days. Gregg Mitman, Donna Haraway, and Anna Tsing speak at the Plantationocene seminar.
