Accumulation by difference-making: an anthropocene story, starring witches

2018/09/02 by Rosemary-Claire Collard, Rosemary‐Claire Collard, Jessica Dempsey · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

paper · doi:10.1080/0966369x.2018.1521385

openalex publication_date 2018/09/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

What do witches have to do with the Anthropocene? More than one might think. In this article we undertake an in-depth book review of Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch to demonstrate how the rise of a division between the productive and reproductive realm, engendered in part through the witch hunts, is a founding condition of the Anthropocene.

Citations

• Tennessee Valley Authority v. Whitman and the Law of Unintended Consequences
• On the Importance of a Date, or, Decolonizing the Anthropocene

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