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The Epochal Event - Transformations in the Entangled Human, Technological, and Natural Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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The Epochal Event - Transformations in the Entangled Human, Technological, and Natural Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
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This book is a unique attempt to capture the growing societal
experience of living in an age unlike anything the world has ever
seen. Fueled by the perception of acquiring unprecedented powers
through technologies that entangle the human and the natural
worlds, human beings have become agents of a new kind of
transformative event. The ongoing sixth mass extinction of species,
the prospect of a technological singularity, and the potential
crossing of planetary boundaries are expected to trigger
transformations on a planetary scale that we deem catastrophic and
try to avoid. In making sense of these prospects, Simon's book
sketches the rise of a new epochal thinking, introduces the epochal
event as an emerging category of a renewed historical thought, and
makes the case for the necessity of bringing together the work of
the human and the natural sciences in developing knowledge of a
more-than-human world.
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