History of Consciousness
HISC 278 Speculative Ecologies
The planetary environmental debacle has exposed the damaging consequences requiring the re-invention of eco-social arrangements. Knowledge fields have responded by assimilating ecological concepts, frameworks, and methods into ways of thinking and acting in the world, sometimes taking the sciences as a normative blueprint for the realignment of social, political, and ethical values. Course identifies the reclaiming of a speculative orientation in research dedicated to creatively fostering a diversity of ecological futures and explores the relevance of speculative thought for research and writing.
Instructor
Maria Puig de la Bellacasa