{"id":61,"date":"2019-06-07T19:01:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T02:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2026-05-31T15:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:38:25","slug":"americans-in-the-anthropocene","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/essays\/americans-in-the-anthropocene\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans in the Anthropocene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/06\/Americans-and-Climate-Change.pdf\">Americans in the Anthropocene<\/a>: my first and so far only foray into writing about nonfiction. The editors made me change the title &#8212; I still think &#8220;Americans in the Anthropocene&#8221; is the one. A discussion of how we need both passionate commitment and an open spirit to survive in the era of climate chaos.<\/p>\n<p>This was the beginning of my engagement with planetary thinking, as opposed to global thinking, in Gayatri Spivak&#8217;s important distinction &#8212; not taking on a frontal engagement with totalizing systems like capitalism and the UN, but thinking of literature as a part of a dynamic, living and vulnerable planetary community, riven by difference and open to change.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans in the Anthropocene: my first and so far only foray into writing about nonfiction. The editors made me change the title &#8212; I still think &#8220;Americans in the Anthropocene&#8221; is the one. A discussion of how we need both passionate commitment and an open spirit to survive in the era of climate chaos. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-61","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}