Lettere persiane agli abitanti dell’antropocene

ARTICOLI / 7 / Stefania Consigliere


The paper presents some reflexions on the ambiguities of the Anthropocene concept as seen from the standpoint of an anthropologist. The idea itself of something like “a geological era dominated by man” comes from a long cultural history that identifies humanity with Western civilisation, and Western civilisation with capitalism. It may be, however, that our passion for reductio ad unum is once again making us blind to the existing multiplicity of human worlds and ways.

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