Research indexBook chapter
The Phallocene
Cole
28 Sep 2021
NobleIDark:/48914/w1/20260521/24143351DOI10.1163/9789004505971_004
The Phallocene
Cole · 2021 · Subscription
NobleIDark:/48914/w1/20260521/24143351DOI10.1163/9789004505971_004
The full text is at the publisher
You can read the abstract here, or open it at the publisher.
Abstract
This chapter explores a relatively untouched aspect of the Anthropocene, its development from the ‘phallic same’. The argument of this chapter is on line with radical feminists and an analysis of Deleuze/Guattari about sameness, that explains how thought has narrowed; in effect, original thought is more difficult to conceive under the contemporary situation of the Anthropocene. The Phallocene suggests that we are living under ‘post-truth’ conditions, because the influences of the fossil fuel empire conspire to make the truth of the situation impenetrable and exceedingly complex to comprehend. This chapter explores how we arrived at the Phallocene, and the active mechanisms of brainwashing that run through every aspect of everyday life. Exit routes from the Phallocene will be suggested via an analysis from Deleuze/Guattari, and applied to education.