Hi Class!

Here is the downloadable syllabus:

Art_Environmental_Crises_Syllabus_summer26

Here are some key due dates of the final project to keep an eye on during the semester:

Part 1: Submit TWO possible choices of art work for the final paper, due: week of June 29 to July 3  

Part 2:  Initial annotated research bibliography, due:  week of July 20 to 24                             

Part 3:  Submit final paper (40%), on or before due: July 28      

And here are all the readings that go with each lecture/comment section:

June 4 When Are We?

Readings:

• Kolbert, “Enter the Anthropocene—Age of Man”
• Demos, Welcome to the Anthropocene!, 5-22 (feel free to read beyond these pages if you’re interested)
• “Geological Records,” in in Fowkes, Art of Climate Change, pp. 14-23

June 9 Fossil Fuels

Reading:

• “Blackout” in Demos, Beyond The World’s End, 43-67
• “Crude Oil” in Fowkes, Art of Climate Change, pp. 36-47

June 16 Animals

Reading:

• Braddock, Activist Abstraction, Anita Krajnc, Save Movement Photography, and the Climate of Industrial Meat
• Fowkes, Nonhuman Persons, 183-90

June 18 Slow Violence

Reading:

• Nixon, Slow Violence, pp. 1-1
• “Visualizing Atmospheric Politics,” Amy Balkin, in The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change, 230-41

June 25 Climate Refugees

Reading:

• “The Visual Politics of Climate Refugees” in Demos, Beyond The World’s End, 68-95

June 30 Postnatural

Reading:

• Demos, “The Post-natural Condition” in Decolonizing Nature, 101-20
• “Synthetic Environments” in Fowkes, Art of Climate Change, 48-57

July 9 Geo-engineering and/or Social Justice

Reading:

• “To Save A World” in Demos, Beyond The World’s End 137-62

July 14 Plant Politics

Reading:

• “Vegetal Agency,” “Botanical Politics,” “Self-Management of Plants” and “Arboreal Worlds” in Fowkes, Art of Climate Change, 126-33, 134-44, 145-52, and 162-71