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Imagining our way in the Anthropocene

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Author: Hoggett, Paul

Source: Organisational and Social Dynamics, Volume 23, Number 1, July 2023, pp. 1-14(14)

Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House

Humankind has damaged, possibly irreparably, the benign climatic conditions which made civilisation possible during the Holocene epoch. Paradoxically the so-called Enlightenment was the handmaid to this destructiveness. Despite its many achievements, Modernity assumed that humankind was destined to assert mastery over nature, a nature which, far from being benign, was construed as alien and hostile. Unless we can imagine a different way of being in this world more science, more technology, more private enterprise, more progress cannot provide the means of repair. We need a new way of imagining how to be human, one that embraces humility, smallness, transience, connectedness, and the natal character of life.

Keywords: AGENCY; MODERNITY; NATALITY; NATURE; PARASITISM

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: July 1, 2023

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