Attached are pdfs for the following:
- Alan Weisman, /The World Without Us/ (St Martins P). *Note*: We are
looking at “Preface: A Monkey Koan” and “Unbuilding Our Home,” pp. 1-5 and
15-20.
- Kate Soper, “Unnatural Times? The Social Imaginary and the Future of
Nature,”/The Sociological Review: Nature, Society and Environmental Crisis/,
ed. Bob Carter and Nickie Charles (Wiley-Blackwell 2010): 222-235.*Note*: I
have substituted this more recent piece for the reading from Soper's/What is
Nature?/, partly because it chimes with the other readings for this week and
partly to vary it from last year's LCT list. Soper's book is of course well
worth checking out in its entirety.
- Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The Climate of History: Four Theses,” /Critical
Inquiry/ 35 (Winter 2009): 197-222.
- Jason W. Moore, “The Capitalocene, Part I: On the Nature and Origins of
Our Ecological Crisis” (www.jasonmoore.com/essays.html
)
Copies of the Weisman and the McKibben are available in the envelope
holder outside my office door, H535.
Note too that the online syllabus is now more fully documented, for
reference's sake.