Billion Worlds Lab

Thursday, February 8, 2024 4:15-6:15 p.m. Room 4102 The Graduate Center CUNY

The affective infrastructure of settler futurity transects opposing positions in minority world eco-politics, from green growth champions to anti-market ecosocialists, offering visions of desirable futures in which modernity persists unchanged. I examine a variety of texts, from an industry-funded docuseries embracing “Net Zero” and a climate solutions book published by Bill Gates, to the radical social democracy of Kim Stanley Robinson and the eco(modern)socialist work of Matt Huber. These strangely resonant environmentalisms comfort the discomforted, offering ontological security that ‘this’ life need not be undone in the pursuit of a viable and just future. Can we work against/despite the allure of these pervasive narratives, which eliminate space for situating alternative visions, decolonial to degrowth?

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