Shock of the Anthropocene - The Earth, History and Us

Zusatztext 51112824 Informationen zum Autor Christophe Bonneuil is a historian at the CNRS and edits the 'Anthropocène' series for Éditions du Seuil. His publications include Une autre histoire des 'Trentes glorieuses' ; Modernisation, contestations et pollutions dans la France d'après-guerre , and Sciences, techniques et société . Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is a historian of science and technology, previously at Imperial College London, now based in Paris at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He is the author of The Happy Apocalypse (forthcoming) and The Shock of the Anthropocene (with C. Bonneuil) . Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the "Anthropocene"

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At a time when the word 'Anthropocene' is becoming so fashionable, this well-documented and well-argued book will help readers sort out the various meanings of this most unstable label. The authors show the bewildering varieties of historical actors at work in what is called the 'environmental crisis'. Bruno Latour

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• Authors: Christophe Bonneuil, Christophe Fressoz Bonneuil, Bonneuil Christophe, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Fressoz Jean-Baptiste
• Assisted by: David Fernbach (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781784785031
• ISBN: 978-1-78478-503-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, HISTORY / Modern / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Applied ecology, Social & political philosophy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Social impact of environmental issues, Impact of science and technology on society, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)