STS 284 - Temporality, Ecology, and Technoscience

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

(Same as POLI 284) Drawing from decolonial ecologies, queer ecofeminisms, and other critical, ecosophical perspectives, this theory course engages the politics of ecology and technology insofar as these invite us to rethink temporalities. Both ecological urgency and the need to slow down crucially inform local and global environmental justice and ecosophy – with degrowth, convivial, radical democratic, postcapitalist communities reclaiming and designing new and old, sustainable modes of living. Meanwhile emergency and end-times discourses feed into authoritarian temptations and into the legitimization of technological hubris (e.g, nuclear energy or geoengineering as “solutions” to the climate wreckage; escapisms such as the colonization of outer space, A.I.-based survivalist fantasies, etc). Claire Sagan.

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: CLS