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Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene” 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 Halftitle Page 2 Title Page 3 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 7 Contents 8 Acknowledgements 10 Preface 11 Part One: What’s in a Word? 15 Chapter 1: Welcome to the Anthropocene 16 Chapter 2: Thinking wi

Author

Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Publisher

Verso Books

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781784780791

Subjects

Anthropology, History, Nature

Rating

4.5 / 5 (57 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14