The Interrelations of Climate Change
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The Interrelations of Climate Change *
The formidable impacts of climate change require profoundly rethinking our understandings of the human’s place in the world. Resolving climate change entails massive upheavals in the way power and capital accumulates, as well as in the very onto-epistemological underpinnings of what the human is and what it means for humans to be in relation to other species, other matter, and other worlds. This course examines this challenge from an interdisciplinary perspective; drawing from climate science, art and cultural production, queer & trans theory, Indigenous and critical race studies, new materialisms, and animal studies. Together, we explore historical constructions of the human, the co-constitutive nature of this human and climate change, and what new relations might be necessary for humans under climate change.