Anthways Issue Launch

Goldsmiths’ Anthropology Postgraduate Research Journal is celebrating the publication of its new issue “Anthropocene: Anthropology at an Impasse.” Join us and our authors!

Anthways, Goldsmiths’ Anthropology Postgraduate Research Journal, is celebrating the publication of its fifth issue “Anthropocene: Anthropology at an Impasse.” To mark the occasion, we invite you to an afternoon of talks and discussion, followed by refreshments and a social.

The issue explores Anthropocene worlds through multispecies ethnography, practices of care and cohabitation, relational ontology and ethics, and speculative framings such as the Chthulucene, Pyrocene or Novocene. It approaches the Anthropocene not simply as a proposed geological epoch but as a fertile philosophical concept through which to interrogate the conditions of contemporary life.

Across the issue, contributors move beyond the “Anthropocene fantasy” of total human mastery, foregrounding instead the entangled agencies of humans, non-humans, and geological landscapes in the ongoing formation of worlds and identities. Essays engage philosophical traditions that privilege process, flux, and relational becoming over fixed ontologies, while examining how human-made environments and technological ‘mayhems’ continue to reshape ecological realities. Alongside these themes, authors reflect on the promises and limits of Anthropocene technologies, consider efforts to decolonise representation across the arts and sciences, and engage critically with the notion of “radical Indigenous alterity.”

Join our authors as they present and discuss their essays, projects, and engagements with the Anthropocene as both an analytical concept and a lived condition. Talks and a Q&A will be followed by a relaxed social with refreshments and further conversation.

Author presentations include:
Hiya Deb "Fragments in the Ruins: Decolonising the frame"
Joe Dredge-Fenwick "How can Indigenous radical alterity challenge anthropology to face the realities of the Anthropocene/Plantationocene?"
Lisa McClure "Becoming-With in Swedish Lapland: Mushing the Chthulucene in a Multispecies Home"
Owen Yue "Thinking with Fire: Geontological Disruptions in the situated Pyrocene"
Rangga Kala Mahaswa "Who is the Anthropocene?"
Connor Eckersall "Gaelic and the Ends of the World"
Lei Zhou "Cosmos Yonder: Anthropocene Ethnography and the Cosmic Escapade Velocity"

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