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Apr 21, 15
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"For some, the Anthropocene debates seem irrelevant: does it matter where in the past geologists decide to place a golden spike, when such urgent questions remain about our future? But the liveliness of the discussion reflects the explanatory promise of the Anthropocene concept: it is a debate over what kind of story can and should be told about human impact on the planet. The claim is often made that climate change is simply too big to see—that it is what eco-critic Timothy Morton terms a hyperobject, something that cannot be realized in any specific instance. The Anthropocene offers climate change not just periodicity but narrativity. And like any well-told story, it relies upon conscious plotting and the manipulation of feeling."

avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/...the-inhuman-anthropocene Anthropocene ecology environment politics culture science

Mar 30, 15
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Rather than characterize now by merely the figure of the human, Haraway suggests we should consider Capital and Cthulhu.

entropymag.org/hulhucene-and-the-capitalocene Harraway theory anthropocene environment ecology politics capitalism biology

Nov 09, 14
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"We have decisively altered the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle and the rate of extinction. We have created unprecedented atomic isotopes and fossilized plastics. We have erected megacities that will leave an enduring footprint long after they have ceased to function as cities. We have changed the pH of the oceans and have shunted so many life forms around the globe—inadvertently and intentionally—that we are creating novel ecosystems everywhere. Of vertebrate terrestrial life, humans and our domesticated animals now constitute over 90% by weight, with less than 10% comprised by wild creatures."

edgeeffects.net/hropocene-promise-and-pitfalls culture environment anthropocene apocalypse ecology

Nov 17, 12
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Young readers are devouring dystopian fiction—and that might be a good thing

BY DAVID SOBEL

www.orionmagazine.org/...7148 dystopia fiction ecology YA

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