Delusions about the human in the Anthropocene
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The Anthropocene is an ideological notion that establishes a false idea of a human-nature conflict. This abstract opposition conceils the complexity of how we understand human. The article suggests a change of focus from discussing what we do to the environment to what we do to understand what it is to be human which has consequences for our relation to the world. Instead of the Anthropocene reductionist understanding of the human-nature divide we should look at the activities that have defined who are considered human and what this does to the relation to the environment.
Source: Nordicum-Mediterraneum
DOI: 10.33112/nm.19.2.6
Author: Carsten Friberg
Institution: University of Southern Denmark
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4400239690