Ted Toadvine selected as OHC Research Fellowship Alternate
Ted Toadvine, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies, was selected as Alternate for a 2015 Oregon Humanities Center Research Fellowship to support his completion of a monograph investigating the theoretical and political implications of deep time, Deep Past, Deep Future: Anachronicity in the Anthropocene. The discovery of the geological past and the millennial future horizon of environmental devastation have transformed our everyday experience of time, with theoretical and political implications for our responsibilities to the far future. Bridging scientific, artistic, and philosophical insights, Toadvine argues that deep time’s radical rupture with the present demands a form of speculative imagination that can avoid the foreclosure of justice for the distant future.