Unwriting for the Anthropocene : looking at the disaster from the inside

This chapter suggests that we do not need more academic production along already understood and practiced lines, but we require what is termed here as 'unwriting'. The necessity for this unwriting is made prescient due to the changing conditions of the Anthropocene, that has made academic writing that carries on in previously conceived and practiced modes redundant. This chapter argues that the philosophical project of Deleuze and Guattari draws a conceptual map of what this unwriting amounts to. The key point of this chapter is to escape and mitigate against capitalist influence on intellectual production. This is not a straightforward or easy task, but one that is becoming increasingly significant under the universal conditions of climate change. In sum, this chapter suggests that all current and future academic production has to take account of and acknowledge its relationship with climate change, if not, it is adding to the problem.