Szerszynski, Bronislaw (2012) The end of the end of nature:the Anthropocene and the fate of the human. Oxford Literary Review, 34 (2). pp. 165-184. ISSN 1757-1634
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Oxford Literary Review |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Anthropocene ; Climate change ; Foucault ; Derrida ; Geology |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Sociology |
| ID Code: | 59869 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 06 Nov 2012 09:08 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 09 May 2013 17:57 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/59869 |
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