The End of the End of Nature
The Anthropocene and the Fate of the Human
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8087644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bronislaw Szerszynski (0000-0002-6546-1479, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 165-184 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oxford Literary Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-1498 • E-ISSN: 1757-1634 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/olr.2012.0040 |
| OpenAlex | W1972784235 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 49 |
| References cited | 7 |
In this paper I explore the metaphor of the strata of the earth as ‘great stone book of nature’, and the Anthropocene epoch as its latest chapter. I suggest that the task of marking the base of the Anthropocene's geological layer is entangled with questions about the human — about who would be the ‘onomatophore’ of the Anthropocene, would carry the name of ‘Anthropos’. I consider divergent ways of characterising the geological force of the Anthropocene — as Homo faber, Homo consumens and Homo gubernans — and situate this dispersal of the Anthropos within a more general dispersal of ‘man’ that occurs when human meets geology. I suggest that the becoming geological of the human in the Anthropocene is both the end of the great stone book of nature and the Aufhebung of ‘man’ — both his apotheosis and his eclipse
Anthropocene · Archaeology · Biological dispersal · Environmental ethics · Metaphor · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Geology · Paleontology
Anthropocene Hells
Introduction
Political Geology
Assembling the Mechanosphere
Disaster's Gift
Rivers of the Anthropocene
Climate change and apocalyptic faith
Paradigm Dressed as Epoch
Who is (Not) Afraid of the Climate Apocalypse? On the Planetary Perspectives of Anthropocene Political Theology through New Images of the Earth
The Antinomy of the Anthropocene
Waste, Environmental Politics and Dis/Engaged Publics
Time Horizon
Marking the boundaries of stratigraphy
Volumes beyond volumetrics
A new climate for human nature? Navigating social theory through postnature, the anthropocene and posthumanism
Urban geography III
Seeing Through the Fumes
The Tight Dialectic
On the Possibilities of a Charming Anthropocene
Conservation without nature
Materializing a Geotraumatic and Melancholy Anthropocene
When Horses Won't Eat
Anthropocene – a cautious welcome from environmental sociology
Anthropogenic Poetics
The Walking Dead
The Anthropocene monument
Security in the anthropocene
Strata of the state
Settler geology
Mobility intersections
Eschatological Geographies-Mass Consumption, Uncontrolled Waste and the Capitalist False Prophet
Beyond the Mirrored Horizon
The underground and end of geologic imaginations in the Finnish/Swedish TV Series White Wall
Cheapness and (labor-)power
Being earthbound
Masters of the universe
A question of uniformitarianism
The Unwelcome Crows
The geology of mankind? A critique of the Anthropocene narrative
The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities
El Atrato y sus guardianes
Ethics in the Anthropocene
Three galleries of the Anthropocene
Geo-Politics and the Disaster of the Anthropocene
Anthropocene East Anglia
Praise Be to You, Earth-Beings
On the properly political (disposition for the) Anthropocene
Gods of the Anthropocene
Islands of Time. Unsettling Linearity Across Deep History
| Unique citing works | 49 |
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| Citations per year | 3,77 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 49 |