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020			_a9781950192564
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245	0	0	_aAnthropocene Unseen : _bA Lexicon
264		1	_aBrooklyn, NY _bpunctum Books _c2019.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2021
264		4	_c©2019.
300			_a1 online resource (545 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_a"The idea of the Anthropocene often generates an overwhelming sense of abjection or apathy. It occupies the imagination as a set of circumstances that counterpose individual human actors against ungraspable scales and impossible odds. There is much at stake in how we understand the implications of this planetary imagination, and how to plot paths from this present to other less troubling futures. With Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon, the editors aim at a resource helpful for this task: a catalog of ways to pluralize and radicalize our picture of the Anthropocene, to make it speak more effectively to a wider range of contemporary human societies and circumstances. Organized as a lexicon for troubled times, each entry in this book recognizes the gravity of the global forecasts that invest the present with its widespread air of crisis, urgency, and apocalyptic possibility. Each also finds value in smaller scales of analysis, capturing the magnitude of an epoch in the unique resonances afforded by a single word.??The Holocene may have been the age in which we learned our letters, but we are faced now with circumstances that demand more experimental plasticity. Alternative ways of perceiving a moment can bring a halt to habitual action, opening a space for slantwise movements through the shock of the unexpected. Each small essay in this lexicon is meant to do just this, drawing from anthropology, literary studies, artistic practice, and other humanistic endeavors to open up the range of possible action by contributing some other concrete way of seeing the present. Each entry proposes a different way of conceiving this Earth from some grounded place, always in a manner that aims to provoke a different imagination of the Anthropocene as a whole.??The Anthropocene is a world-engulfing concept, drawing every thing and being imaginable into its purview, both in terms of geographic scale and temporal duration. Pronouncing an epoch in our own name may seem the ultimate act of apex species self-aggrandizement, a picture of the world as dominated by ourselves. Can we learn new ways of being in the face of this challenge, approaching the transmogrification of the ecosphere in a spirit of experimentation rather than catastrophic risk and existential dismay? This lexicon is meant as a site to imagine and explore what human beings can do differently with this time, and with its sense of peril."?
546			_aEnglish.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aNature _xEffect of human beings on. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01034564
650		7	_aHuman ecology. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00962941
650		7	_aEnvironmental degradation. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00912877
650		7	_aClimatic changes. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00864229
650		7	_aClimate change. _2bicssc
650		7	_aSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography. _2bicssc
650		0	_aClimatic changes.
650		0	_aEnvironmental degradation.
650		0	_aNature _xEffect of human beings on.
650		0	_aHuman ecology.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
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710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/84184/
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