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Record Nr.

UNINA9910389553303321

Autore

Mentz Steve

Titolo

Break Up the Anthropocene / Steve Mentz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of Minnesota Press, 2019

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

1-4529-6253-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (87 pages)

Collana

Forerunners : Ideas First

Disciplina

909.83

Soggetti

Twenty-first century

Humanity

Geology, Stratigraphic

SCIENCE - Philosophy & Social Aspects

HISTORY - World

Geology, Stratigraphic - Anthropocene

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; TItle; Copyright; Contents; Plural Ships on Plural Seas; Pluralize the Anthropocene!; Six Human Postures; Anachronism as Method; "Now, Now, Very Now!"; Errant Nature; The Neologismcene; Acting Human. Being Posthuman; Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

We live in a new world: the Anthropocene. The Age of Man is defined in many ways, and most dramatically through climate change, mass extinction, and human marks in the geological record. Ideas of the Anthropocene spill out from the geophysical sciences into the humanities, social sciences, the arts, and mainstream debates but it s hard to know what the new coinage really means. Break Up the Anthropocene argues that this age should subvert imperial masculinity and industrial conquest by opening up the plural possibilities of Anthropocene debates of resilience, adaptation, and the struggle for environmental justice.