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This interdisciplinary volume discusses whether the increasing salience of the Anthropocene concept in the humanities and the social sciences constitutes an "Anthropocenic turn." The Anthropocene discourse creates novel conceptual configurations and enables scholars to re-negotiate and re-contextualize long-established paradigms, premises, theories and methodologies. These innovative constellations stimulate fresh research in many areas of thought and practice. The contributors to this volume respond to the proposition of an "Anthropocene turn" from the perspective of diverse research fields, including history of science, philosophy, environmental humanities and political science as well as literary, art and media studies. Altogether, the collection reveals to which extent the Anthropocene concept challenges deep-seated assumptions across disciplines. It invites readers to explore the wealth of scholarly perspectives on the Anthropocene as well as unexpected inter- and transdisciplinary connections.
List of contents
Anthropocenic Turn?-An Introduction
Gabriele Dürbeck and Philip Hüpkes
Section 1: Creating Knowledge in the Anthropocene
Chapter 1
The "Material Turn" and the "Anthropocenic Turn" from a History of Science Perspective Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Chapter 2
The Anthropocene and the History of Science
Jürgen Renn
Chapter 3
The Dirty Metaphysics of Fossil Freedom
Franz Mauelshagen
Chapter 4
Oriental Wisdom for the Planet? Thoughts on Asia and the Anthropocene, with Special Emphasis on China
Hannes Bergthaller
Section 2: Narrating the Anthropocene
Chapter 5
Safe Conduct: The Anthropocene and the Tragic
Bernhard Malkmus
Chapter 6
Scaling, Modelling, Teaching: The Anthropocene from a Literature Pedagogy Perspective
Roman Bartosch
Chapter 7
Dating the Anthropocene: Why Deciding on a Start Date for the Most Recent Geological Epoch Matters
Philipp Pattberg and Michael Davies-Venn
Chapter 8
When Humans Become Nature
Bernd Scherer
Section 3: Sensing the Anthropocene
Chapter 9
Latency, Entanglement, Scale. Challenges for an Aesthetics of the Anthropocene
Eva Horn
Chapter 10
The Urgency of a New Humanities: Sensing the Anthropocene as a State of Exception
Gregers Andersen and Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen
Chapter 11
Filming through the Milieu. Becoming Extinct and the Anthropocene
Julia Bee
Chapter 12
Seeds-Boundary Objects of the Anthropocene
Alexandra R. Toland
Chapter 13
The Garden and the Cloud: Art, Media, and the Dilemmas of the Anthropocene
Serenella Iovino
Summary
This interdisciplinary volume discusses whether the increasing salience of the Anthropocene concept in the humanities and the social sciences constitutes an "Anthropocenic turn."
