anthropocene

is an argument that forces us to recognize that natural worlds are inextricable from the worlds and challenges us all to radically rethink nature, humans, and the relationship between them.

This is the tragedy of the Anthropocene. But this tragedy also holds an odd, even schizophrenic, promise... namely the promise of scientific renewal and insight. For in the Anthropocene, nature is no longer what conventional science imagined it to be. And if the notion of a pure nature-an-Sich has died in the Anthropocene and been replaced by natural worlds that are inextricable from the worlds of humans, then humans themselves can no longer be what classical anthropology and human sciences thought they were. Arguably, the Anthropocene challenges us all to radically rethink what nature, humans as well as the political and historical relationship between them might be at the end of the world, peppering its message of environmental doom with the promise of scientific renewal (and global survival) through trans-disciplinary collaboration.

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