‘The Shape of Things to Come’: Seven Theses on the Anthropocene and Attachment

摘要: Anthropocene as epoch and discourse: As discourse it would seem the has arrived. For is a term that supplies an arresting image of daunting development: advent geological era humanity’s own making. earth system scientists who have championed notion, signals interval since industrial revolution, where, through its activities, numbers, human species emerged force now altering planet’s biosphere. Because these developments relatively benign planetary conditions Holocene—the previous 12,000 years, which enabled establishment agriculture rise urban civilizations—are in process transformation.