Christophe Bonneuil, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

The Shock of the Anthropocene (eBook, ePUB)

The Earth, History and Us
Übersetzer: Fernbach, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784780821
• Artikelnr.: 48038935

Autorenporträt

Christophe Bonneuil is a historian at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and edits the Anthropoc¿ne series for Editions du Seuil.

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, formerly a lecturer at Imperial College, London, is now a historian at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique.

Rezensionen

At a time when the word 'Anthropocene' is becoming so fashionable, this well-documented and well-argued book will help readers sort out the various meanings of this most unstable label. The authors show the bewildering varieties of historical actors at work in what is called the 'environmental crisis'. Bruno Latour