Main entry:

Bennett, Jill, 1963- author.

Title & Author:

Living in the Anthropocene = Leben im Anthropozän / Jill Bennett ; translation/Übersetzung: Barbara Hess.

Publication:

Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, [2012]
©2012

Description:

1 online resource (22 pages).

Series:

100 notes - 100 thoughts = 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken ; no. 053
E-Books ; v. 1

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Documenta 13, held June 9-September 16, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references.
The topic of this notebook by Jill Bennett is life in the anthropocene, the present eon, which is characterized by human activities. Derived from geology, the term anthropocene circumscribes an era that began with the industrialization and spans a vanishingly brief time of 250 years, in which, however, a paradigm change has occurred. Its implications have generated some resistance, uttered, for example, when denying that climate change, a decisive trait of the anthropocene, is a man-made phenomenon. The comprehensive change in our understanding of the world has had effects on how we eat, shop, and move around, but it also offers the potential for inventions in the socio-ecological systems: when ecological thinking begins to influence our ways of working, it may eventually lead to a transdisciplinary revolution. Bennett names examples of transdisciplinary processes from the realm of art, such as Amy Balkin's work Public Smog (2004-ongoing), which incorporates the earth's atmosphere. -- Publisher's description.
Intro -- English / Living in the Anthropocene -- A Transdisciplinary Revolution -- Ecological logic -- Deutsch / Leben im Anthropozän -- Eine disziplinenüber-greifende Revolution -- Ökologische Logik
In English and German.

Summary:

""Anthropocene"-the name for a geologic age of our own making-is a term that might yet prove decisive in crystallizing the stakes of climate change. What began as a theory (humans are a predominant force shaping nature) is now the defining feature of an era of the earth's history. Popularized over the past decade by the atmospheric chemist and Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen, the term is gaining traction in mainstream media. Its identification is, after all, a news event: we're living in a timeframe that is not the one we had previously thought. Technically, the geologic timescale remains to be formally revised by the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society, which is now reviewing the case. The commission has, however, acknowledged the merits of the basic proposition that human activity has driven change at a planetary level. There's something oddly moving about an appeal on behalf of a planet in crisis to a branch of earth science that deals firmly in the longue durée. The naming of a new geologic era is a provocative rhetorical move, given the longevity of phases in the geologic timescale. The Holocene has lasted a mere 10,000-12,000 years, while the Pleistocene that came before it extended a further 1.8 million years. To propose a new period coextensive with industrial civilization, itself a mere 250 years in the making, is by the conventions of stratigraphy (the study of rock layers) both precipitous and extremely pointed. Crutzen has even linked the putative origins of the Anthropocene to a single formative event: the invention of the steam engine in 1784. Such precision makes the point: if we have left behind the long period of environmental stability that was the Holocene, the stakes have changed-in a very short span of time..."-- provided by distributor.

Resources:
EBSCOhost

ISBN:

3775730826
9783775730822 (electronic bk.)
9783775729024
377572902X

Subject:

Human ecology in art.
Climatic changes Philosophy.
Écologie humaine dans l'art.
Climat Changements Philosophie.

Form/genre:

Tracts (Ephemera)
Pamphlets

Added entries:

Hess, Barbara, 1964- translator.
Bennett, Jill, 1963- author. Living in the Anthropocene. English.
Bennett, Jill, 1963- author. Living in the Anthropocene. German.
Documenta (Exhibition) (13th : 2012 : Kassel, Germany)
100 notes--100 thoughts ; no. 053.
E-Books.

Leben im Anthropozän
Jill Bennett