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How does earth system modelling limit what stories about planetary change can be told? And can the lens of the Plantationocene help us answer this question?
That’s what I am asking in a new paper in The Anthropocene Review
doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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"The Pentagon began to integrate Anthropic’s Claude chatbot into [Palantir] Maven in late 2024... The system has been used to generate proposed targets, to track logistics and provide summaries of intelligence coming in from the field."
The result?
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...
The article is part of a special issue on the “Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling” edited by @adamwickberg.bsky.social from @anthropocenekth.bsky.social and Tom Turnbull from @mpiwg.bsky.social
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One underlying question is what happens when we embrace modelling’s political nature.
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It then becomes necessary to sustain a focus on modelling the Plantationocene’s inside—through the concept of data friction and communal counter-mapping—while also extending the gaze outside the plantation boundaries through forms of contestation and speculative thought.
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The reflections on what it means to grasp the Plantationocene as an epistemological object invite us to think more generally about what modelling does.
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The violent scalability inherent in plantations cannot easily be represented in a model fuelled by quantitative data. Such data is always an imperfect abstraction. Many aspects of human and non-human life remain beyond its grasp.
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My analysis reveals a more fundamental problem of scalability and how the origins of the Plantationocene mean taking seriously the colonial history of data collection and measurements as well as current data practices of extraction and dispossession.
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ESMs are resources for political decision-making, but their storytelling capacity is limited. The Plantationocene offers a means of destabilisation to put forward the notion that the Anthropocene limits what stories about planetary change can be told in the first place.
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I argue that earth system models (ESMs) can be understood as stories, in which each model defines the background, careful decisions are made in terms of who the characters of the story are, the variables of storylines are chosen, and potential story arcs are outlined.
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The Plantationocene is at once a metaphor, conceptual approach, and empirical category.
But what should we do with need to document the Plantationocene’s planetary impact and the inability of models to fully grasp and articulate its violent ramifications?
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The term emphasises the transformative capacities and moral culpability of those humans who engaged in land dispossession, deforestation, the extensive cultivation of crop monocultures, and the subjugation and displacement of enslaved people.
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The Plantationocene takes the historical and environmental impacts of the plantation system as its analytical departure point.
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If you don’t have access, feel free to let me know so I can send you a pdf.
Alternatively, you can find the pre-print here: philpapers.org/rec/KADCTP
More details on my argument below
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How does earth system modelling limit what stories about planetary change can be told? And can the lens of the Plantationocene help us answer this question?
That’s what I am asking in a new paper in The Anthropocene Review
doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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This includes the the entire city of Sour (Tyre), one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities, with a population of ~135,200 people
„Auf Anfrage teilt ein Sprecher des Staatsministers mit, dass man sich entschieden habe, die drei Buchhandlungen nicht auszuzeichnen, weil man über ,verfassungsschutzrelevante Erkenntnisse’ verfüge.“
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
The phrase “preemptive strike” is as insulting as when we were sold “humanitarian pauses” in the middle of a live-streamed genocide. The powerful looking you straight in the face and telling you your common sense simply doesn’t matter.
@danielloick.bsky.social and I wrote a thing: "Surplus Fascism: Reflections on Current Tendencies of Abandonment in Germany and Beyond", for a SI in New German Critique. @robin-c.bsky.social and H. Kundnani also contributed some really good pieces, among others! read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-c...
German Memory Politics at a Crossroads
Very happy to be part of this new special issue
I wrote my article
“Staatsräson as State Racism: Notes on the Authoritarian Turn in Contemporary Germany”
last spring … and the authoritarian turn hasn’t slowed down
read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-c...
Sugarcane workers working in a field of tangled sugarcane stalks. In green font, it says The Business of Racism In smaller black font it says Labor and Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism
And now we officially have a cover
dukeupress.edu/the-business...
re: Kansas today, but everything generally—I don’t repeat what’s become a talking point about the number of trans people being so small to be so targeted. The number of people harmed is not a fight I want to have when that number could be one and the harm would still be wrong.
Rassemblement de fascistes à Nice
Fascistes avec des torches
En ce moment à Nice, rassemblement de fascistes.
J'ai passé la journée à prévenir mes ami.e.s racisé.e.s et LGBTQIA+ de ne pas sortir. Une amie a été menacée par 6 hommes.
On se rend compte de la dinguerie ? ?? ?
All of this thread
No es fácil.
#Photography Raúl Cañibano, Cuba.
Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.
Two Women kissing in front of a line of police officers during a gay rights demonstration in Staten Island in New York in 1990. (Photo by Thomas McGovern.) Taken from "Making Out, Making Change: The History of Queer Kiss-Ins by Stef Rubino on Autostraddle
Hot for Revolution Caleb Ward Abstract Activists for feminist, queer, and disability justice commonly describe their work as motivated by an erotic desire to build a different world. This chapter argues that this is not merely a metaphor. Drawing on activist case studies and the work of Audre Lorde, the chapter shows that erotic desire and pleasure in social movements can foster political agency for people targeted by sexual oppression. It traces three political benefits of erotic passion in this context: personal empowerment, communal moral resistance against oppressive norms and justifications, and enhanced political imagination toward a world that supports sexual agency. However, because intimate relationships within movements are often distorted by dominant, pernicious ideologies around sex, these political benefits are only realizable when a movement is organized internally around a relational infrastructure – an ethos – that supports sexual agency and equality, responsive to the needs of those targeted by sexual oppression. Keywords: political agency, sexual oppression, social movements, sexual agency, Audre Lorde, feminism, disability, queer politics, moral resistance, political imagination
Members of the Lesbian and Gay community stage a Valentine‘s Day “Kiss-In” 14 February 1988 outside St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York to present a message of their unity and love in the face of the “church condoning anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence”. (Photo by MARIA BASTONE / AFP)
What does it mean to be hot for revolution—to feel a desire to transform the world in your belly and your bones?
Here's my latest, on how erotic desire feeds political agency. I draw on AIDS activism, disability justice & other movements against sexual oppression.
philpapers.org/archive/WARH...