Presently, there is no consensus on when precisely the Anthropocene began, but some proposals include the dawn of agriculture, the first sedimentary evidence of human activity, the industrial revolution, the development of non-solar-based energy production, and the dawn of radioactive contamination. Since then it has been taken up within the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, used to describe large-scale changes to the environment and ecology through deforestation, extinction, atmospheric alterations, transformations of the landscape, and the propagation of invasive species. The “Anthropocene” was first proposed as a new geological epoch defined by human-driven changes to the global atmo spheric and geologic order. ![]() Preface to a Genealogy of the Postnatural A downloadable PDF of the essay is here.) ![]() Copies of the book available for purchase here. Verlag and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. (Originally appearing in the book "Intercalations 2: Land & Animal & Non-Animal" Co-edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin.
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