Do-It-Together: Collective action in and against the Anthropocene

Abstract

This special issue features creative-critical responses to the theme, “Hacking the Anthropocene: Do-It-Together (DIT).” The “Anthropocene” is a term that has gained significant cultural and academic cache, even though it is wildly out of touch with the analyses and calls of such movements as Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, youth climate strikers and land defender activists. Building on the work of critical feminists Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Hamilton (and collaborators), in this editorial we explore hacking as a multivalent method for resisting, ejecting, adapting and disrupting the anthropocentric “settler atmospherics” (Simmons 2017) of our times. Considering how we might hack the Anthropo..