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; Iemanja 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; OEmur
Harmansah, 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.
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