Intensification – Paul N. Edwards

Rachael Beddoe et al., “Overcoming Systemic Roadblocks to Sustainability: The Evolutionary Redesign of Worldviews, Institutions, and Technologies,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, no. 8 (February 24, 2009): 2483–89.

Peter Haff, “Technology as a Geological Phenomenon: Implications for Human Well-Being,” Geological Society, London, Special Publications 395, no. 1 (January 2014): 301–9, ➝.

Peter Haff, “Humans and Technology in the Anthropocene: Six Rules,” The Anthropocene Review 1, no. 2 (August 1, 2014): 126–36.

Gabrielle Hecht, “Interscalar Vehicles for an African Anthropocene: On Waste, Temporality, and Violence,” Cultural Anthropology 33, no. 1 (February 22, 2018): 109–41.

Zachary K. Horton, The Cosmic Zoom: Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021).

Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999); Paul N. Edwards, “Infrastructure and Modernity: Scales of Force, Time, and Social Organization in the History of Sociotechnical Systems,” in Modernity and Technology, ed. Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey, and Andrew Feenberg (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002), 185–225; Paul N. Edwards et al., Understanding Infrastructure: Dynamics, Tensions, and Design (Ann Arbor: Deep Blue, 2007); Thomas Parke Hughes, Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004); Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract {Nachdr.} (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 2011).

Stewart Brand, The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility (New York: Basic Books (AZ), 1999); Danny Hillis, “The Millennium Clock,” Wired, December 6, 1995.

Raymond S. Bradley, Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary (Academic Press, 2014); EPICA community members, “Eight Glacial Cycles from an Antarctic Ice Core,” Nature 429 (June 10, 2004): 623–28; J. Jouzel, “A Brief History of Ice Core Science over the Last 50 Yr,” Climate of the Past 9, no. 6 (2013): 2525–47; Matteo Willeit et al., “Mid-Pleistocene Transition in Glacial Cycles Explained by Declining CO2 and Regolith Removal,” Science Advances 5, no. 4 (April 2019): 1–8.

Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The Climate of History: Four Theses,” Critical Inquiry 35, no. 2 (2009): 197–222.

Richard B. Alley, Earth: The Operators’ Manual (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011).

Gerardo Ceballos et al., “Biological Annihilation via the Ongoing Sixth Mass Extinction Signaled by Vertebrate Population Losses and Declines.,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, no. 30 (2017): E6089–96; Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, “Returning to ‘Normal’? Evolutionary Roots of the Human Prospect,” BioScience 72, no. 8 (August 2, 2022): 778–88.

Shaun A. Marcott et al., “A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years,” Science 339, no. 6124 (March 8, 2013): 1198–1201.

Ray Bradbury, “A Sound of Thunder,” Collier’s, June 28, 1952; Stephen Fry, Making History (London: Hutchinson, 1996).

Peter J. Bowler, A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress from HG Wells to Isaac Asimov (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017); Joseph J. Corn and Brian Horrigan, Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1996).

Masson-Delmotte, V. et al., eds., Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), chap. 1.

Paul N. Edwards, “Control Earth,” LA+ Simulation: Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture 4 (2016): 10–15.

Anne Pasek, “Mediating Climate, Mediating Scale,” Humanities 8, no. 4 (October 11, 20.19): 159.

C. P. Summerhayes et al., “The Future Extent of the Anthropocene Epoch: A Synthesis,” Global and Planetary Change 242 (November 1, 2024): 104568.

Edwards, “Infrastructure and Modernity: Scales of Force, Time, and Social Organization in the History of Sociotechnical Systems”; Paul N. Edwards, “Infrastructuration: On Habits, Norms, and Routines as Elements of Infrastructure,” in Thinking Infrastructures, ed. Martin Kornberger et al., Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 62 (Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing, 2019), 355–66.

Walter Leal Filho et al., “An Assessment of Priorities in Handling Climate Change Impacts on Infrastructures,” Scientific Reports 14, no. 1 (June 19, 2024): 14147.

Anna Scherbina and Joel Lander, “The End of Insurance: Climate Change Is Destroying Homeowners and Insurers,” Morningstar, Inc., February 4, 2025, ➝.

Riley E. Dunlap and Peter J. Jacques, “Climate Change Denial Books and Conservative Think Tanks,” American Behavioral Scientist 57, no. 6 (June 2013): 699–731; Aaron M. McCright et al., “Ideology, Capitalism, and Climate: Explaining Public Views about Climate Change in the United States,” Energy Research & Social Science 21 (November 2016): 180–89; Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010).

Paul N. Edwards, “Is Climate Change Ungovernable?,” London Review of International Law 12, no. 3 (November 21, 2024): 351–72; Stephen Humphreys, “Ungoverning the Climate,” Transnational Legal Theory 11, no. 3 (July 2, 2020): 244–66.

“Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: Impacts, Implications, and Guidance,” American Psychological Association and ecoAmerica, 2017; Terra Léger-Goodes et al., “Eco-Anxiety in Children: A Scoping Review of the Mental Health Impacts of the Awareness of Climate Change,” Frontiers in Psychology 13 (July 25, 2022): 872544.