Changing Cenes

Part II

Focusing Questions

  • What’s happening in the late Holocene?
  • Are we really still in the Holocene?
  • What is our new relationship with the Earth?

Summary

Primarily informed by earth system science and new cultural anthropology, I outline the key contours of the proposed geological epoch, the Anthropocene. I then describe and characterize new key relationships human societies have forged with the Earth during the late-Holocene and juxtapose the two cenes.

“We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and ecological ruination. Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to pay attention to mushroom picking. Not that this will save us--but it might open our imaginations.”

- Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (2015)

Informants...

  • How To Inhabit the Earth

    Thinking with Bruno Latour

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  • The Art(s) of Living on a Damaged Planet

    Thinking with twenty eminent humanists and scientists

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  • Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene

    Thinking with Anna Tsing and friends

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  • How to Live at the End of the World

    Thinking with Travis Holloway

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  • The Mushroom at the End of the World

    Thinking with Anna Tsing

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  • Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future

    Thinking with Ed Conway

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  • On the Emergence of an Ecological Class

    Thinking with Latour & Schultz

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  • Doughnut Economics

    Thinking with Kate Raworth

    Doughnut Economics becomes Doughnut Pedagogy

  • Global CZOs

    Thinking with Earth Systems Scientists

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  • W.A.F.E.L

    Thinking with Michel Serres

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  • Mapping Controversies: A Field Guide

    Thinking with Venturini & Munk

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  • Terra Forma

    Thinking with Aït-Touati, Arènes, & Grégoire

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  • Anthropology And/As Education

    Thinking with Tim Ingold

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  • World-Centered Education

    Thinking with Gert Biesta

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  • How To Be An Explorer of the World

    Thinking with Keri Smith

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  • The Art of Noticing

    Thinking with Rob Walker

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  • What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory

    Thinking with Brian Eno & Bette A.

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