Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the new proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, this book critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations. It analyzes contemporary visual culture—popular science websites, remote sensing and SatNav imagery, eco-activist mobilizations, and experimental...
Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the new proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, this book critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations. It analyzes contemporary visual culture—popular science websites, remote sensing and SatNav imagery, eco-activist mobilizations, and experimental artistic projects—to consider how the term proposes more than merely a description of objective geological periodization. This book argues that the Anthropocene terminology works ideologically in support of a neoliberal financialization of nature, anthropocentric political economy, and endorsement of geoengineering as the preferred—but likely disastrous—method of approaching climate change. To democratize decisions about the world’s near future, we urgently need to subject the Anthropocene thesis to critical scrutiny and develop creative alternatives in the present.
作者简介
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T. J. Demos, an award-winning writer, is Professor of Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes widely about contemporary art, global politics, and ecology, and is the author, most recently, of Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press).
In a single lifetime we have grown into a phenomenal global force. We move more sediment and rock annually than all natural processes such as erosion and rivers. We manage three quarters of all land outside the ice sheets. Greenhouse gas levels this high have not been seen for over one million years. Temperatures are increasing. We have made a hole in the ozone layer. We are losing biodiversity. Many of the world's deltas are sinking due to damming, mining, and other causes. Sea level is rising. Ocean acidification is a real threat. We are altering Earth's natural cycles. We have entered the Anthropocene, a new geologicial epoch dominated by humanity. - Globaia, welcome to the anthropocene. (人类世，一个新的地质年代） (7)
These questions will be addressed in this book, which, coming from a visual-cultu... (查看原文)
In other words, Anthropocwene visuality tends to reinforce the techno-utopian position that "we" have indeed mastered nature, just as we have mastered its imaging - and in fact the two, the dual colonization of nature and representation, appear inextricably interwined.
Bringing together eco-p[timist luminaries llike Stewart Brand, Erle Eliis, Ted Nordhaus, and Michael Shellenberger, the group argues thatt, despite environmental setbacks, "humans" must continue down the path of modernization, using "their growing social, economic, and technological powers to make life better for people, stabilize the climate, and protect the natural world." (查看原文)
0 有用 gongong 2019-12-19 15:10:15
对于人类世视觉叙事的形成做了很清晰的解构。
0 有用 blee 2025-02-01 18:51:16 日本
短而易懂
0 有用 澳大利亚喂袋鼠 2020-05-03 14:35:29
简单易懂，感谢。
1 有用 爆炒雨女 2024-02-21 13:24:14 美国
最近跟Maria讨论都在夸赞Chtulucene的accuracy，她说当她想到capitalocene, wastoscene, anthropocene各种cene的时候就好像看到一场大的晚宴，Chtulucene张着它massive的触手，最后一个赴宴，如同一个boss。 -- 结构和论述都很清楚，很快读完了。对我来说没有很新的观点，读完大概是有顺了一遍自己脑子的效果（+一些empirica... 最近跟Maria讨论都在夸赞Chtulucene的accuracy，她说当她想到capitalocene, wastoscene, anthropocene各种cene的时候就好像看到一场大的晚宴，Chtulucene张着它massive的触手，最后一个赴宴，如同一个boss。 -- 结构和论述都很清楚，很快读完了。对我来说没有很新的观点，读完大概是有顺了一遍自己脑子的效果（+一些empirical例子）。最后给的creative抗争例子我觉得都不够creative（特别是巴黎的）...原住民的部分倒想多了解一点。啊想做在废墟里，屎里，发热thrive的case study。 (展开)
0 有用 Hildegaard 2021-03-30 22:23:58
好读死了，批判人类世概念的混淆视听，资本世虽然更明晰了责任主体，可人类世和资本世都是人本末日论，触手世才是最近未来的终极形态。（🐙）