Event
SG – Dreaming “Green” Dreams in the Wasteocene
We are haunted by waste. Although we try to make it go away by recycling it and by reframing it as a resource or by burying or burning it. But it keeps returning in the strangest ways.
About Dreaming “Green” Dreams in the Wasteocene
We find we are not so much living in the Anthropocene but in the Wasteocene. An era in which the wasting people, places and things is normalised, and a happy few try to secure a pristine paradise while the rest are forced to live in a global dump. Fantasies about sustainability, circular economy and the transition to “green” energy only seemingly offer us a way out, but in fact have us tumble ever deeper into the Wasteocene. Why? Because this “green ideology” does not offer actual alternatives and keeps extractivist, (neo)colonial practices in place. Lisa Doeland will argue that we should let the spectre of waste unsettle the fantasies of green ideology and remind us of our being ecological = when we keep dumping in our environment we keep dumping in ourselves.
About lecture series Three Key Concepts - Recycling, Earth, Commons
Do the ecological crises force us to tell alternative views on our place and role on this planet and our doing on it and understanding of it? The right story? The whole story? The true story? Three talks about key-concepts in our Wageningen disciplines. Philosophical-Ecological narratives about the ‘things’ we care about at WUR.
About Lisa Doeland
Lisa Doeland (1982) is a philosopher. She lectures at both Erasmus University and the University of Amsterdam in ethics and in contemporary issues, such as ecology, green ideology, the climate crisis, the Anthropocene and the Apocalypse. In her PhD research she explores the myriad ways in which we are haunted by these things we (call) waste. Drawing on the work of philosopher Jacques Derrida and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan she traces the “spectre of waste” and sketches a hauntology of waste, that forces us to rethink being (ontology) – to be is to haunt and be haunted – and allows us to critically reflects on (eco)modern myths and fantasies, such as recycling without remainders within a circular economy. She is the author of 'Onszelf voorbij. Kijken naar wat we liever niet zien' (2018) and 'Apocalypsofie. Over recycling, groene groei en andere gevaarlijke fantasieën' (2023).