Names for the Ages of Terra


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Satellite view of a nuclear crater from a nuclear testing site
Satellite view of a nuclear crater from a nuclear testing site

Anthropocene

IX century concept!

Capitalocene

Anthropogenic implicates an actor that doesn’t exist. There is no Anthropos, no humanity as a unified actor. So, if not anthropogenic, what? In a word: capitalogenic.

Jason Moore, World accumulation & Planetary life, or, why capitalism will not survive until the ‘last tree is cut’[^1]

Cthulhucene

Donna Haraway

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