The Shock of the Anthropocene

Zusatztext 51113061 Informationen zum Autor Christophe Bonneuil is a historian at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and edits the Anthropocène series for Editions du Seuil. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz ! formerly a lecturer at Imperial College! London! is now a historian at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Zusammenfassung 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Christophe Bonneuil, Christophe Fressoz Bonneuil, Christopher Bonneuil, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
• Con la collaborazione di: David Fernbach (Traduzione)
• Editore: Verso
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9781784780791
• ISBN: 978-1-78478-079-1
• Pagine: 320
• Dimensioni: 146 mm x 217 mm x 30 mm
• Categoria: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale