TY  - BOOK
AU  - Demos,T.J.
TI  - Against the anthropocene: visual culture and environment today 
SN  - 9783956792106
AV  - GF75 .D4667 2017
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Berlin
PB  - Sternberg Press
KW  - Geology, Stratigraphic
KW  - Anthropocene
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Visual communication
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - Political ecology
KW  - Environmentalism in art
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Global environmental change
N1  - BIBINDX; (from table of contents); Welcome to the Anthropocene! --; Geoengineering the Anthropocene --; Against the Anthropocene --; Capitalocene violence --; Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene, the many names of resistance
N2  - Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the new proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, this book critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations. It analyzes contemporary visual culture-popular science websites, remote sensing and SatNav imagery, eco-activist mobilizations, and experimental artistic projects--to consider how the term proposes more than merely a description of objective geological periodization. This book argues that the Anthropocene terminology works ideologically in support of a neoliberal financialization of nature, anthropocentric political economy, and endorsement of geoengineering as the preferred--but likely disastrous--method of approaching climate change. To democratize decisions about the world's near future, we urgently need to subject the Anthropocene thesis to critical scrutiny and develop creative alternatives in the present
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