Children and Carbon Cultures
Thu, 15 Oct
|Zoom: https://unsw.zoom.us/j/8582932819
A lecture presented in the context of the Posthumanities Research Theme in CHASS. Join Professor Anna Hickey-Moody for her lecture on Children and Carbon Cultures.


Time & Location
15 Oct 2020, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm AEDT
Zoom: https://unsw.zoom.us/j/8582932819
Guests
About the event
(presenting a paper co-written with Amy Cutter-Mackenzie, David Roussell and Sophie Hartley)Prof Anna Hickey-Moody
Carbon shapes the ways in which humans live and how we see ourselves. It is, of course, more than human. As such, any approach to thinking about carbon is necessarily a posthuman inquiry. We are entangled with carbon and carbon imaginaries. We are attached, entangled with systems run on carbon, with places geared to produce coal, with carbon heavy and carbon neutral objects and the more-than-human world. The concept of entanglement helps to show the relational nature of the what, who, how and where we are attached. As such, entanglement is considered a 'posthuman' concept. The word posthuman expresses criticism of the age of enlightenment and associated beliefs that predominantly white, male, European men and knowledges are the centre of our world. If the white, male, European man can be seen as the model of the…