Climate Philosophy in the Capitalocene. The Collegium Phaenomenologicum’s 48th annual session
Cittàdi Castello, Italy, Jul 6-24, with the participants conference taking place July 4 and 5, 2026
Climate philosophy responds to environmental destabilization by discussing climate temporalities and spatialities, eco-politics, climate justice, climate affects, and the ethical and political reorientations demanded by climate change. Climate philosophy also rethinks climate, partly in response to global heating, as world in the phenomenological sense and as history and habitat of life on earth. The Capitalocene references the Anthropocene dominated by colonial capitalism and its uneven and ongoing histories. In the first week, we will question, in discussion with phenomenology and climate science, how the temporal framing of climate change is narrated. The second week moves the focus to space by exploring, principally in conversation with deconstruction and French philosophy more broadly, how climate change alters the sense of world beyond globalization. The final week’s course draws on eco-marxism, bio-politics, and eco-feminism to propose a fundamental rethinking of the political at the end of the world.
Week 1 “Against the Clock: Climate Phenomenology and Temporal Reckoning” Ted Toadvine, Penn State University, USA
Week 2 “The world of global warming” Susanna Lindberg, University of Leiden, NL
Week 3 “Rethinking the Political at the End of the World” Johanna Oksala, Loyola University Chicago
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