Angela Giuffrida, “Venice Council Flooded Moments after Rejecting Climate Plan,” The Guardian, November 15, 2019 →.
Jason W. Moore, “The Rise of Cheap Nature,” in Anthropocene or Capitalocene: Nature, History and the Crisis of Capitalism, ed. Jason W. Moore (PM Press, 2016), 85.
Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard University Press, 2011), 69.
I discuss at greater length the relation between narrative, imagination, and infrastructure in the context of propaganda in Jonas Staal, “Propaganda (Art) Struggle,” e-flux journal no. 94 (October 2018) →.
The Pyrocene, as proposed by T. J. Demos, is “the geological age of fire.” See Demos, “The Agency of Fire: Burning Aesthetics,” e-flux journal no. 98 (February 2019) →.
Quoted from the Facebook announcement for “The CyberCunt Mini Ball by Father Chraja Kareola.”
T. J. Demos, “To Save a World: Geoengineering, Conflictual Futurisms, and the Unthinkable,” e-flux journal no. 94 (October 2018) →.
Thiel’s supposed libertarianism is deeply contradictory, as Sven Lütticken observes: “That Thiel is obsessed with attaining sovereignty vis-à-vis the nation-state, for instance via ‘seasteading,’ did not, of course, prevent him from supporting Trump, who promises to restore national sovereignty and ‘make America great again’ … This is the double promise of sovereignty: the one per cent get one kind, the rest get national sovereignty.” Sven Lütticken, “Abdicating Sovereignty,” in Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent, eds. Maria Hlavajova and Wietske Maas (MIT Press and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, 2019), 81–95, 87.
Joseph Masco, The Theater of Operations (Duke University Press, 2014), 108.
David Smith, “‘Anti-Greta’ Teen Activist to Speak at Biggest US Conservatives Conference,” The Guardian, February 25, 2020 →.
See also the documentary film Behind the Curve, dir. Daniel J. Clark (Delta-v Productions, 2018).
Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal (Penguin Random House UK, 2019), 40–49.
In the novel, a pill called Oval provokes generosity in a scarcity-structured world. See Elvia Wilk, Oval (Soft Skull, 2019).
The subreddit r/ThanosDidNothingWrong even re-enacted Thanos’s galactic genocide in July 2018 by randomly removing 350,000 of its users—half of its membership. See Aja Romano, “Redditors Love Infinity War’s Thanos So Much, 300,000 of Them Just Faked Their Own Internet Deaths,” Vox, July 10, 2018 →.
Sherronda J. Brown, “Humans Are Not the Virus: Don’t Be an Eco-fascist,” Wear Your Voice, March 27, 2020 →.
Luke O’Neill, “‘I’m Inevitable’: Trump Campaign Ad Shows President as Avengers Villain Thanos,” The Guardian, December 11, 2019 →.
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents (Grand Central Publishing, 2007), 19.
Radha D’Souza, What’s Wrong with Rights: Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations (Pluto Press, 2018).
See the US Congressional resolution developed by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Edward J. Markey, proposed in both the Senate and House of Representatives on February 7, 2019 →. Varoufakis cofounded the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), and a “European New Deal” is an integral part of the its platform →.
On the struggles over the Green New Deal, see Nicholas Beuret, “A Green New Deal Between Whom and For What?,” Viewpoint Magazine, October 24, 2019 →.
Jem Bendell, “Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy,” Institute of Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS), University of Cumbria, July 27, 2018 →.
Transcript from Molly Crabapple and Naomi Klein, “A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” The Intercept, 2019 →.
Kim Stanley Robinson, 2140 (Orbit, 2018), 19.
Robinson, 2140, 209.
Transcribed from Woman at War, dir. Benedikt Erlingsson, (Slot Machine and Gulldrengurinn, 2018).
See Athian Akec, “When I Look at Extinction Rebellion, All I See Is White Faces. That Has to Change,” The Guardian, October 19, 2019 →.
Shela Sheikh, “More-than-Human Cosmopolitics,” in Propositions for Non-Fascist Living, 130.
Sven Lütticken, “Toward a Terrestrial,” e-flux journal no. 103 (October 2019) →.
Consisting of researchers, artists, and other cultural workers, Toxic Commons was founded by Caroline Ektander, Antonia Alampi, and the Hazardous Travels research group. It organizes conferences and research exhibitions that explore the notion of toxic agencies. See in particular “The Long Term You Cannot Afford,” October 26–December 8, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin.
Not An Alternative, “Beneath the Museum, the Spectre,” in The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change, eds. T. J. Demos, Emily Eliza Scott, and Subhankar Banerjee (Routledge, forthcoming).
Not An Alternative, “Beneath the Museum, the Spectre.”
See the website of the Natural History Museum →.
“The Wretched Earth” is the title of a special double issue of Third Text (vol. 32, no. 2–3, 2018).
Not An Alternative, “Beneath the Museum, the Spectre.”
I want to thank iLiana Fokianaki and Andreas Petrossiants for their editorial support in writing this essay, as well as Not An Alternative, Radha D’Souza, Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei, James Bridle, Gene Ray, Chrysos (Chraja) Synodinos—Father of the House of Kareola—and Theo Prodromidis, for the generous conversations and exchanges underlying this text.