Looks like I'll be doing it in the second week of September at a fascinating sounding event on the Anthropocene. I'll post more when it becomes clearer.
"Anthropocene" seems, well, too anthropormorphic a label. It's not that we are now quite emeshed with machines (in the broad sense), it is that that emeshment is more and more defining us, a monstrous coupling ie cyborgs. So I suggest a more appropriate term is Cyborgocene. It is this emeshemnt with machines that is affecting the earth, not mere humanity.
"Anthropocene" seems, well, too anthropormorphic a label. It's not that we are now quite emeshed with machines (in the broad sense), it is that that emeshment is more and more defining us, a monstrous coupling ie cyborgs. So I suggest a more appropriate term is Cyborgocene. It is this emeshemnt with machines that is affecting the earth, not mere humanity.
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