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Polson Institute Events

Play Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene: Conceptualizing the Climate Crisis

Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene: Conceptualizing the Climate Crisis

A critical conversation with Wendy Wolford and Jason W. Moore on our contemporary planetary predicament and how different ways of conceptualizing it might entail different strategies for transformative change.

Play Designing for the Pluriverse: Restor(y)ing Life, Remaking Worlds

Designing for the Pluriverse: Restor(y)ing Life, Remaking Worlds

Arturo Escobar examines emerging narratives of life that differ significantly from dominant anthropocentric perspectives of the world and their associated extractive modes of global development.