Now on display in Carrier Library:
Feminist scholar Donna Haraway, in
her 2016 book Staying With the Trouble, writes that, “Bounded individualism in
its many flavors in science, politics, and philosophy has finally become
unavailable to think with, truly no longer thinkable, technically or any other
way.”
This book display brings together the physical sciences, the political
sciences and the humanities to take up the question of the Anthropocene.
Geologist Paul Crutzen first coined the term Anthropocene in 2000, and The
Oxford English Dictionary defines it as, “The era of geological time during
which human activity is considered to be the dominant influence on the
environment, climate, and ecology of the earth.”
In this book display, we take
our cues from Haraway and posit that individuals across all disciplines and
fields must now collectively face the ways that humans impact our planet.
Through collective action, we may find answers to some of the Anthropocene’s
problems.