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COP26 and the Post-Anthropocene: Rival Conceptions of Nature and the Perils of Anti-humanism
COP26 and the Post-Anthropocene: Rival Conceptions of Nature and the Perils of Anti-humanism
Date: Wednesday 20 October 2021
Time: 13:00 - 15:00
Venue: Online
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This presentation offers a series of philosophical reflections on certain trends within the environmental and especially XR movements which critique the supposed elevation of human exceptionalism within the ecological order.
Attending to the thematics of stewardship, transcendence-subjugation and integrated ecology, the presentation highlights the dangers of the increasingly apocalyptic anti-humanism in several expressions of this conflict and proposes a reconciliation attuned to both the dignity of the human and the demanding ethical responsibilisation that flows from this recognition.
For more information, email Robert.Davis@glasgow.ac.uk