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(Sign up below) LECTURE BY PROFESSOR MARCO ARMIERO ON WASTEOSCENE
The geological Anthropocene may have faltered, but it remains relevant to examine the narratives it has mobilized and the need to cultivate counter-hegemonic storytelling. While humans may live in the Anthropocene, it does not affect everyone equally. What if, instead of searching for its traces in the geosphere, researchers looked for them in the organosphere – in the ecologies of humans and their entanglements with the environment?
Toxic strata have sedimented into human (and more-than-human) bodies, and according to recent studies in epigenetics, these are now inscribed into genetic memory. By examining this embodied stratigraphy of power and toxicity, we may find ourselves facing not the Anthropocene, but the Wasteocene – the Age of Waste. One might argue that the Wasteocene reveals the true face of the supposedly neutral and universal Anthropocene, exposing the unequal power relations and violence shaping this new era.
The Wasteocene is less about the mere production of waste and more about the production of wasted people and places. The imposition of wasting relationships on subaltern human and more-than-human communities constructs a toxic ecology, built not only from contaminating substances but also from contaminating narratives. In this talk, I will focus on the Toxic Narrative Infrastructure, which invisibilizes, normalizes, and naturalizes injustices, and the diverse ways in which guerrilla narratives attempt to sabotage it.
You can read more about the event series "The Narratives and the Politics of Toxic Ecologies" here: https://cape.ku.dk/eng/calendar/2024/public-lecture-on-wasteocene/
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Læderstræde 20, 1201 Copenhagen, Denmark, Læderstræde 20, 1201 København K, Danmark,Copenhagen, Copenhagen , Denmark
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