[12] April 1 - Energy and the escape from history
Presentation: Kathrin
Assigned reading:
Dipesh Chakrabarty, "The climate of history: Four theses," Critical Inquiry 35 (2009): 197-222.
Robert Emmett and Thomas Lekan, eds., Whose Anthropocene? Revisiting Dipesh Chakrabarty’s "Four Theses", RCC Perspectives (2016), including these options:
McAfee, "The politics of nature" (Pavel T., Alperen)
Eagle, "Climate change and the confluence of human and natural history" (Pavel Iu., Sunny)
Barnes, "Rifts or bridges?" (Kathrin, Tiimotheus)
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