{"id":672,"date":"2020-01-27T18:31:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T13:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.potentialloops.org\/?p=672"},"modified":"2020-06-16T12:46:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T07:16:41","slug":"the-shape-of-things-to-come-seven-theses-on-the-anthropocene-and-attachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.potentialloops.org\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"The Shape of Things to Come\u2019:  Seven Theses on the Anthropocene  and Attachment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"> Ben Dibley<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.potentialloops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/crop-0-0-500-500-0-Shape.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-670\" width=\"585\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.potentialloops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/crop-0-0-500-500-0-Shape.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.potentialloops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/crop-0-0-500-500-0-Shape-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.potentialloops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/crop-0-0-500-500-0-Shape-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.potentialloops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/crop-0-0-500-500-0-Shape-270x270.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><figcaption>Blog Post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Anthropocene as epoch and as discourse: As epoch and as discourse it would seem the Anthropocene has arrived. For it is a term that supplies an arresting image of a daunting development: the advent of a geological era of humanity\u2019s own making. For the earth system scientists who have championed the notion, the Anthropocene signals a geological interval since the industrial revolution, where, through its activities, through its numbers, the human species has emerged as a geological force now altering the planet\u2019s biosphere. Because of these developments the relatively benign planetary conditions of the Holocene\u2014the previous 12,000 years, which enabled the establishment of agriculture and the rise of urban civilizations\u2014are in the process of transformation.The exponential growth in the human population and the associated resource intensive practices on which this is contingent have produced various stratigraphical signals. For earth system scientists the most obvious of these sedimentary layers is Anthropocene rock\u2014the concrete, steel and bitumen of the planet\u2019s cities and roads (Zalasiewicz et al., \u2018New World\u2019); while the most enduring are anthropogenic biochemical processes\u2014emission of greenhouse gases, acidi\ue01dcation of the oceans, modi\ue01dcation of soils, destruction of biota and relocation of genetic stocks and increasingly codes. All of these are now in the process of permanently altering the earth\u2019s systems and the evolutionary trajectory of planetary life (Zalasiewicz et\ue01bal. \u2018Are We Now?\u2019; Ste\ue01fen et al.). For the term\u2019s advocates it is the emergence of the human species as this geological forcing agent that signals the close of the Holocene and the opening of a new epoch.The notion of the Anthropocene, then, vividly captures the folding of the human into the air, into the sea, the soil and DNA.1 As a force imperilling \u2018the 1  Here then, the notion of the Anthropocene might be seen as an implicit criticism of the hegemony of the climate crisis at the level of public discourse\u2014in as much as the latter, in its staging in policy and popular imaginaries and, indeed, those of humanities and social science scholars, frequently neglects the couplings of the earth\u2019s systems. In this, the Anthropocene serves as a reminder that the resolution of the climate crisis will  safe operating space for humanity with respect to the earth system\u2019, it  is an emergence that is simultaneously an emergency (Rockstr\u00f6m et al.  475).2 As a pithy appellation the Anthropocene is a term increasingly  entering public and policy discourses, and indeed, the lexicon of the  humanities and social sciences.                                                                                                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Dibley Anthropocene as epoch and as discourse: As epoch and as discourse it would seem the Anthropocene has arrived. For it is a term that supplies an arresting image of a daunting development: the advent of a geological era of humanity\u2019s own making. 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