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    • Ian Baucom: History 4° Celsius: Search for a Method in the Age of the Anthropocene
    Published by IRadmin at 20th Apr 2021
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    Vice-Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Western Cape, Prof. Tyrone Pretorius, has the pleasure of inviting you to a conversation with Prof. Ian Baucom on 12 April 2021.

    Prof. Baucom, the Buckner W. Clay Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia, will discuss his new book History 4° Celsius: Search for a Method in the Age of the Anthropocene.

    This event is presented in association with the Centre for Humanities Research (DSI-NRF Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities) and the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security, and is hosted by the International Relations Office (UWC).

    12 April 2021

    South Africa@ 16:00

    Virginia@ 10:00

    Abstract

    In History 4° Celsius Ian Baucom continues his inquiries into the place of the Black Atlantic in the making of the modern and postmodern world. Putting black studies into conversation with climate change, Baucom outlines how the ongoing concerns of critical race, diaspora, and postcolonial studies are crucial to understanding the Anthropocene. He draws on materialist and postmaterialist thought, Sartre, and the science of climate change to trace the ways in which evolving political, cultural, and natural history converge to shape a globally destructive force. Identifying the quest for limitless financial gain as the primary driving force behind both the slave trade and the continuing increase in global greenhouse gas emissions, Baucom demonstrates that climate change and the conditions of the Black Atlantic, colonialism, and the postcolony are fundamentally entwined. In so doing, he argues for the necessity of establishing a method of critical exchange between climate science, black studies, and the surrounding theoretical inquiries of humanism and posthumanism.

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