Humanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the
disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis In 2016,
Antarctica’s Totten Glacier, formed some 34 million years ago,
detached from its bedrock, melted from the bottom by warming ocean
waters. For the editors of Timescales, this event captures the
disjunctive temporalities of our era’s—the
Anthropocene’s—ecological crises: the rapid and accelerating
degradation of our planet’s life-supporting environment
established slowly over millennia. They contend that, to represent
and respond to these crises (i.e., climate change, rising sea
levels, ocean acidification, species extinction, and biodiversity
loss) requires reframing time itself, making more visible the
relationship between past, present, and future, and between a human
life span and the planet’s. Timescales’ collection of
lively and thought-provoking essays puts oceanographers,
geophysicists, geologists, and anthropologists into conversation
with literary scholars, art historians, and archaeologists.
Together forging new intellectual spaces, they explore the
relationship between geological deep time and historical
particularity, between ecological crises and cultural expression,
between environmental policy and social constructions, between
restoration ecology and future imaginaries, and between
constructive pessimism and radical (and actionable) hope.
Interspersed among these essays are three complementary
“etudes,” in which artists describe experimental works that
explore the various timescales of ecological crisis. Contributors:
Jason Bell, Harvard Law School; Iemanjá Brown, College of Wooster;
Beatriz Cortez, California State U, Northridge; Wai Chee Dimock,
Yale U; Jane E. Dmochowski, U of Pennsylvania; David A. D. Evans,
Yale U; Kate Farquhar; Marcia Ferguson, U of Pennsylvania; Ă–mĂĽr
HarmanĹźah, U of Illinois at Chicago; Troy Herion; Mimi Lien; Mary
Mattingly; Paul Mitchell, U of Pennsylvania; Frank Pavia,
California Institute of Technology; Dan Rothenberg; Jennifer E.
Telesca, Pratt Institute; Charles M. Tung, Seattle U.Â
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