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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · 23d

just deleted my account w 150 papers and 80k downloads with the feedback “fuck your new terms, bye”

Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · Aug 31

Southern Anthropocenes available for pre-order from Sept 3. unfortunately at a prohibitive cost.. Coming out on September 24 and it is extremely pleasing. www.routledge.com/Southern-Ant...

Southern Anthropocenes

This wide‑ranging volume addresses the changing landscape of problems, challenges, and possibilities that emerge once the macroscopic notion of the Anthropocene is replaced with Southern Anthropocenes...

www.routledge.com

Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · May 30

Gombrowicz is unsurpassed, incredible stuff, especially Cosmos

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · May 13

yes on AIS

Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · May 13

Bon appetite.

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · May 13

23. After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
Munira Khayyat

Postscript. What Tales will We Leave the Children of Tomorrow? Story-Trading across Southern Anthropocenes
Casper Bruun Jensen with Isabelle Stengers

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · May 13

21. Arctic Worlds in Southern Anthropocenes
Olga Ulturgasheva

22. How to Survive Medicine in the Anthropocene?
Gergely Mohácsi

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · May 13

19. Reclaiming Country: Australian Aboriginal Walking Trails as Method
Jennifer Eadie and Stephen Muecke

Part 6. Entangled Territories
Introduction
Kregg Hetherington

20. Under the Plastic Tarp: Memory and a Southern Anthropocene in California’s Pajaro Valley
Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · May 13

17. Migratory Birds, Migratory Lives: A Brackish Contact Zone in Bang Pu, Thailand
Jiraporn Laocharoenwong

18. Artisans of the Plasticene: Polytanks and Plasticities in Urban Ghana
Brenda Chalfin with Alhassan Seidu

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · May 13

15. Speculation as Method: World-Building and Collective (Un-)Learning for the Anthropocene
Asli Kemiksiz, Atsuro Morita and Émile St-Pierre

Part 5. More-than-Human Itineraries
Marisol de la Cadena

16. Street Feeding Stray Cats: A Multi-Species Cosmopolitics in Urban Indonesia
Fadjar Thufail

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · May 13

13. Anthropocenes Off-Earth
Juan Francisco Salazar

14. How to Construct a Time Machine: The Anthropocene in an Indigo Vat
Steven D. Brown, Marta Gasparin and Martin Quinn

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · May 13

11. For a World where Mutual Worlds Fit: Political Ontology in the Anthropocene
Alyne Costa

Part 4. Speculations
Introduction
Didier Debaise

12. Decolonial Portals as Pedagogical Practice
Bea C. Rodriquez-Fransen, Victoria Desimoni and Iveta Silova

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · May 13

Part 3. Livable Worlds
Introduction
Elaine Gan

9. To Forego: An Ethics for the Urban Anthropocene
Abdoumaliq Simone

10. Kinship in the Technosphere: From Ishimure Michiko’s Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow to Miyazaki Hayao’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Yuki Masami

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · May 13

6. Anthropocene Relations and the ‘Human activity’ in Zimbabwe’s Forest Reserves
Tafadzwa Mushonga

7. Difference and Disobedience: Inhabiting the Southern Anthropocene
Niranjana R

8. The Plasticene and the Global South
Paul Jobin

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · May 13

4. Gardens at the Edge of the Sky: Toward an Entropological Pact
Cristobal Bonelli

Part 2. Problems of Co-existence
Introduction
Mario Blaser

5. Wounded Lands, Resentful Mountains, and Mourning Maize: The Ecological Violence of War and Peace in Latin America
Daniel Ruiz-Serna

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · May 13

2. Tropical Cargoscapes: Sojourning Putridities in the Afterlives of Medical Necrowaste in Colombo
Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa

3. Diving into the Underwater Anthropocene: Vital Materiality and the Becoming of a Shipwreck
Jakkrit Sangkhamanee

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · May 13

Introduction
Casper Bruun Jensen

Part 1.
Introduction: Emergent Interfaces
Marilyn Strathern

1. Welcome to the End of the World: Thinking beyond the Separation of Human and Geological Temporalities
Penelope Harvey

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · Apr 30

I'm exceedingly pleased to let you know that the webpage for the massive edited volume Southern Anthropocenes is up and running at www.routledge.com/Southern-Ant.... It will be out in October 2025 and if you're into STS, anthropology, and ecological/anthropocene/gaian/decolonial stuff it is for you.

Southern Anthropocenes

This wide ranging volume addresses the changing landscape of problems, challenges, and possibilities that emerge once the macroscopic notion of the Anthropocene is replaced with Southern Anthropocenes...

www.routledge.com

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · Apr 30

congratulations Fernando it looks great!

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · Apr 13

and there is the whole sub-field of science and technology (Sts) studies dealing with related issues

Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · Mar 28

Writing about speculative futures and NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth hits differently in Bangkok today

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · Mar 28

Chatuchak, Bangkok which is awful but Myanmar is looking worse

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · Mar 13

I know it’s not exactly what you ask but might be relevant in this thread anyway- our pre-covid oa special issue on speculation and thinking across worlds in anthropology and sf - www.natcult.net/journal/issu...

Issue 5

ISSN 2436-1410 Anthropology and Science Fiction: Experiments in Thinking Across Worlds Table of Contents Introduction Experiments in Thinking across Worlds Casper Bruun Jensen and Asli Kemiksiz PDF…

www.natcult.net

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · Mar 7

Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️

Donna Haraway, elder intellectual white woman, speaking before a tight group of people with save science signs amidst the redwoods at UCSC.

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · Mar 7

Another chapter in the seemingly interminable Latour series, Anders Blok and I have written on five moments of eco-politics for the handbook of environmental political theory in the anthropocene (www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...). Accessible version here: www.academia.edu/91323427/Act...

www.elgaronline.com

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · Mar 4

i recently had to give up getting reimbursed by U Chicago because nobody could figure the system out. One international air ticket, 10-20 emails and 4 attempts with their insane system

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · Feb 17

Thanks for the boost Chakad and isn’t that just right and long overdue 💪🏻

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Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · Feb 16

The comment by Anders Blok and I on the five commenters. Perhaps dialogue is overrated sometimes... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In the mode of metamorphosis: ANT and Latour after Latour - Anders Blok, Casper Bruun Jensen, 2025

This short piece responds to five commentaries to our own suggestions on ‘What Next for Actor Network Theory?’ after Latour's passing. Charting a path through v...

journals.sagepub.com

Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · Feb 10

billy woods “multiverse benzino” 😎

Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social · Jan 30

Our contributors engage cities from places like Sao Paulo, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Berlin and Jakarta as planetary microcosms and platforms for grappling with emerging Anthropocene/Gaian effects.

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