Break Up the Anthropocene
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Break Up the Anthropocene
By (Author) Steve Mentz
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
4th September 2019
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Impact of science and technology on society
Physical Properties
Paperback
86
Width 127mm, Height 178mm, Spine 6mm
Description
Takes the singular eco-catastrophic Age of Man and redefines this epoch
We live in a new world: the Anthropocene. The Age of Man is defined in many ways, and most dramatically through climate change, mass extinction, and human marks in the geological record. Ideas of the Anthropocene spill out from the geophysical sciences into the humanities, social sciences, the arts, and mainstream debatesbut its hard to know what the new coinage really means. Break Up the Anthropocene argues that this age should subvert imperial masculinity and industrial conquest by opening up the plural possibilities of Anthropocene debates of resilience, adaptation, and the struggle for environmental justice.
Forerunners: Ideas First
Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
Author Bio
Steve Mentz is professor of English at St. Johns University. He is the author of Shipwreck Modernity (Minnesota, 2015), At the Bottom of Shakespeares Ocean (2009), and Romance for Sale in Early Modern England (2006).
