Practicing for Death in the Anthropocene

Abstract This article analyzes the theme of practicing for death as it has emerged in recent environmental discourse. In first part, situates Roy Scranton’s Learning to Die Anthropocene (2015) context new critical approaches and asceticism, especially Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics (2013). second offers an reading “remembrance death” appears John Climacus’s influential seventh-century manual, The Ladder Divine Ascent. Here, authors build on remarks Climacus while developing analysis substantially, drawing (in part three) ecotheological readings Byzantine asceticism elucidate practice. argue that what is at stake remembrance not self but a perception valorizes self-possessed subject. final they compare specific self-images Christian human qua subject posthumanist ethics Rosi Braidotti. At same time, see deepening positions sketched out Braidotti’s posthumanism providing perspective idea resigning from care.