Unit 1: Welcome to the Anthropocene
Paul J. Crutzen – “Geology of mankind”
Rebecca Solnit – “Climate Change Is Violence”
Zadie Smith – “Elegy for a Country’s Seasons”
David Wallace-Wells – from The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Unit 2: Re-Thinking the Anthropocene
William Cronon – “The Trouble with Wilderness, or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”
Cara Daggett – “Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire”
Ursula K. Heise – “The Hug of the Polar Bear”
Andreas Malm – “The Anthropocene Myth”
Dipesh Chakrabarty – “The Climate of History: Four Theses”



