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A Philosophical Journey into the Anthropocene: Discovering Terra
Incognita presents the Anthropocene as more than a geological
epoch, but rather it as the potential metarecit of our age and the
most faithful expression of the current Zeitgeist. Insofar as the
Anthropocene establishes that the human agency as technological
omni-power represents a "global geophysical force" capable of
altering the destiny of the Earth system, the coming of this new
epoch shows that technology now embodies the subject of both
history and nature. This technology achieves the status of an
integral epochal phenomenon: the new environment for human life.
Agostino Cera traces how the "technisches Zeitalter" (age of
technology) outlined by twentieth-century philosophical thought
emerged out of the Anthropocene and suggests that a more
appropriate name for this planetary framework Technocene. The book
develops along four basic directions: epistemological, ontological,
anthropological, and ethical. It argues that the Anthropocene is
something radically new, a terra incognita or an "epistemic
hyperobject with a (geo-)historical barycenter," giving rise to: 1)
an unprecedented form of reification of nature ("pet-ification of
nature"); 2) an unexpected version of anthropocentrism ("Aidosean
Prometheanism"), and 3) an unpredictable ethical paradox ("paradox
of omni-responsibility").
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