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Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
wiley   +1 more source

Petropower in Law‐Enforcement Advertising at Super Bowl LIX

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This paper examines a recruitment commercial from the Super Bowl on 9 February 2025 in terms of its spectacularisation of petroleum's abiding yet volatile influence. The minute‐long piece on behalf of federal law enforcement indicates how the workings of power in the United States of America are entangled with the ubiquity of oil ...
Daniel A. Finch‐Race, Pancho Lewis
wiley   +1 more source

The Sedanthropocene: Nomadism, Ecology, Hypernormalization: Toward Reimagining the Holocene

open access: yesSocieties, 2019
The various (s)cenes of Anthropocene discourse are attempts to conceptualize the problem of anthropogenic global warming and to better understand the problem with a view to possible solutions. This paper explores, in a series of theoretic vignettes, ways
David Selsky
doaj   +1 more source

Dall’ecologia politica attraverso il Capitalocene per una società ecologica

open access: yesGeography Notebooks, 2020
In the context of Political Ecology, this paper traces the main interpretations that have emphasized the need to rethink the relationship between nature and society in order to find new solutions to the ecological crisis.
Gioacchino Piras
doaj   +1 more source

Theoretical and methodological bases of Critical Bioethics facing the challenges of the Anthropocene

open access: yesO Mundo da Saúde, 2023
Critical Bioethics proposes a theoretical and methodological foundation starting from self-criticism about the field of bioethics itself, as well as the production of knowledge and technology as a whole, seeking to identify how ethical discourses are ...
Thiago Rocha da Cunha   +1 more
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No Future, No Children; or No Children, No Future? Or Neither? Reproductive Reluctance as a Form of Adaptation to Climate Change Futures

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract Recent years have seen a steady rise in narratives of pronatalism and demographic anxiety, while younger people are increasingly expressing reluctance to have children for reasons related to climate change. This commentary argues that geography and geographers have much to contribute to imagining, researching and building alternative ...
Matilda Fitzmaurice
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting Capital and Class in the Ecological Crisis: Toward an Expanded and Historical Approach

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical review of recent literature examining the entanglement of ecological crisis, capitalism, and class struggle, and proposes the incorporation of an expanded and historical perspective on class. First, we offer an introductory conceptual mapping of the anticapitalist ecology and some of its most significant ...
Julio Martínez‐Cava Aguilar   +1 more
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Recursos genéticos e bioprospecção no Brasil: capitaloceno, protagonismo e os (des)caminhos até o Protocolo de Nagoya (2010)

open access: yesCaravelle, 2023
Given the deterioration of the ecological and climate crisis, nature’s conversion into biodiversity has enabled the advancement of the political-economic agendas of countries with high genetic diversity, enabling Brazil to gain a central position in the ...
Eduardo Relly
doaj   +1 more source

Anthropocene, History and Politics. Challenges and Critical Itineraries

open access: yesScienza & Politica
The essay addresses some questions that the concept of the Anthropocene poses not only to political theory but also to the humanities and social sciences.
Furio Ferraresi
doaj   +1 more source

Narrative Horizons: Deliberate Derangement in Oceanic Climate Fiction

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Although we live in the Anthropocene—the geological age of humankind, wherein humans have measurably impacted the biosphere—we struggle to narrate the Anthropocene. In particular, we struggle to give narrative shape to its foremost feature: anthropogenic climate change.
Mark Celeste
wiley   +1 more source

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