In this commentary I contribute to discussions about the possibilities for postcarbon conferencing by drawing on my own experience of deciding not to fly. In this piece I explain how my epistemological position of reflexive critique cultivated within my home discipline of anthropology became compromised in the face of an increasing awareness and understanding of climate change. Reflexivity here operated not as a liberatory form but as a mode of thinking that stifled and closed down possibilities for acting in a climatologically engaged way. I describe how I came to rethink my own academic practice through a shift from epistemological reflexivity to material reflexivity and how this opened up the possibility of not flying as a legitimate mode of academic critique. In conclusion I describe some of the conceptual and intellectual openings that such a practice of critique is capable of generating, with a view to expanding the terrain of the possible to include transgressions that might eventually need to become the norm in a climate-changing world.

在这篇评论中，我利用自己决定不飞行的经验，为关于碳后会议可能性的讨论做出了贡献。在这篇文章中，我解释了面对气候变化的日益认识和理解，我在我所在的人类学学科中培养的反思性批判的认识论立场是如何受到损害的。这里的反身性不是作为一种解放形式，而是作为一种思维模式，它扼杀和关闭了以气候学参与方式行动的可能性。我描述了我如何通过从认识论反思到物质反思的转变来重新思考我自己的学术实践，以及这如何开启了不飞行作为学术批评的合法模式的可能性。