O Tempora! O Mores! Interrupting the Anthropo-obScene

Henrik Ernstson; Erik Swyngedouw

O Tempora! O Mores! Interrupting the Anthropo-obScene

Henrik Ernstson, Erik Swyngedouw

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We develop the term “the Anthropo-obScene” to show how various discourses on “the Anthropocene” have created a set of stages that disavow certain voices and render some forms of acting (human, non-human, and more-than-human) off-stage. Examples include consensual narratives of adaptive, resilient, and geo-engineered governance, but also more-than-human ontologies that, in spite their purported radicality, could lead to a problematic strengthening of technomanagerial discourse. With the Anthropo-obScene, we seek to interrupt the deepening of “immunological bio-politics” and a politicization of the socio-ecological conundrum we are in, while fully and radically embracing our interdependence with non-humans.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene
Subtitle of host publication	Interruptions and Possibilities
Editors	Henrik Ernstson, Erik Swyngedouw
Place of Publication	London & New York
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	2
Pages	25
Number of pages	57
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315210537
ISBN (Print)	9781138629196, 9781138629189
Publication status	Published - 2019

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Political theory
Democracy
Anthropocene
Political Ecology
Social movements

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"Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta!" Postcolonial Remains and the Politics of the Anthropo-ob(S)cene
Henao Castro, A. F. & Ernstson, H., 2019, Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene : Interruptions and Possibilities. Ernstson, H. & Swyngedouw, E. (eds.). London & New York: Routledge, p. 69 87 p. (Questioning Cities).
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Politicizing the Environment in the Urban Century
Ernstson, H. & Swyngedouw, E., 2019, Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities. Ernstson, H. & Swyngedouw, E. (eds.). Routledge, p. 4 21 p. (Questioning Cities).
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The perverse lure of autocratic postdemocracy
Swyngedouw, E., 1 Apr 2019, In: South Atlantic Quarterly. 18, 2, p. 267-286 20 p.
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"Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta!" Postcolonial Remains and the Politics of the Anthropo-ob(S)cene

Politicizing the Environment in the Urban Century

The perverse lure of autocratic postdemocracy

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