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Scientific Doomsday Scenarios: Foresight Projections for the Near and Deep Future
This paper conveys the projections for the end of the Earth and Heat Death of the Universe according to scientific narrative of Big History. It also introduces some concepts from the field of ‘foresight’ regarding how to look at multiple futures in a ...
David Baker
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A New Keyword in the Museum: Exhibiting the Anthropocene
Since 2000, the concept of the Anthropocene has moved from its geologic field of origin into numerous other academic disciplines and into the world of museums.
Lotte Isager +2 more
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Anthropocène, la fin de l’homme ? Retour sur un colloque à l’École polytechnique
Cet article rend compte du colloque de sciences sociales intitulé « Anthropocène, la fin de l’homme ? », qui s’est tenu les 28 et 29 septembre 2023 à l’École polytechnique.
Sentis Thomas
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Anthropocène, apocalypse et parousie ?
What do we mean by “Anthropocene”? This text seeks first to clarify the meaning of this expression and show how it places humanity in the long term, in contrast to previous findings and analysis on the fragility of the planet.
Dominique Bourg
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Dipesh Chakraborty and Kathleen D Morrison engage in provincializing the Anthropocene to decenter the grasp of the idea that Anthropocene is an outcome of European industrial phase that enhanced socio-economic growth worldwide, thereby revealing the ...
Barnashree Khasnobis
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The Valley of Ashes, the archetypal anthropocenic Fitzgeraldian place in The Great Gatsby, is a pallid, fluctuating and elusive environment that irreparably alienates and isolates the individual.
Pascal Bardet
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Chronique du cinéma 12 : Les crimes du futur — Les aléas de l’évolution et de la déshumanisation
Commentaire à propos du film Les crimes du futur du réalisateur canadien David Cronenberg. Le film met en scène un univers dystopique dans lequel la survie de l’espèce humaine soulève de grands défis. Confrontés à un monde toxique et pollué, les humains
Raphaël Mathieu Legault-Laberge +1 more
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Politics of Time and Mourning in the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene thesis makes it necessary for the social sciences to engage with temporality in novel ways. The Anthropocene highlights interconnections between ‘natural’ and ‘social’ non-linear temporal processes.
Rosine Kelz, Henrike Knappe
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How Anthropocene Might Save the World: Metamorphosis
The Anthropocene has created a new cartography. It moves between the rejection of scientific disciplines, overcoming dualism and a change of coordinates with which to interpret the world.
Jordi López Ortega
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All energy matters Let us broaden the discussion on solutions to climate change. Greenhouse gases have upset the delicate equilibrium of the Earth's energy balance. Consequently, all sources of heat affect the temperature of the Earth. Although the amount of additional heat generated by humans is a fraction of that produced by the sun, it is generated ...
Martin Bertau +2 more
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