Anthropocene Islands, Entangled Worlds

Author

Jonathan Pugh ; David Chandler

Year

2021

Publisher

University of Westminster Press

Language

English

Link

Last Update

24-Jul-2025

Keywords

Philosophy ; Biological Sciences ; Sociology

Description

Many Anthropocene scholars provide us with the key take-home message that they are writing ‘after the end of the world’ (Morton, 2013; Tsing, 2015; Danowski and Viveiros de Castro, 2016; Watts, 2018; and Gumbs, 2018 are just some examples). Not because they are necessarily writing about apocalypse, but because they are engaging the Anthropocene after the profound crisis of faith in Western modernity that has swept across academia in recent decades. For these contemporary thinkers, artists, activists, poets, policymakers, and many others besides, modern frameworks of reasoning which claimed to separate out humans from nature – to be able to...