The Shock of the Anthropocene

- Authors
- Bonneuil, Christophe & Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste
- Publisher
- Verso
- Tags
- philosophy , history , science , politics
- ISBN
- 9781784780791
- Date
- 2013-10-25T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.93 MB
- Lang
- en
**Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the "Anthropocene"**
The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years.
How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a "human species" that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent "environmental awareness," about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science and history, *The Shock of the Anthropocene* dissects a new theoretical buzzword and explores paths for living and acting politically in this rapidly developing geological epoch.