Uncivilised Civilisations

Mota, Aurea

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“…Recent efforts by historians to overcome this division seek to bring the Neolithic and Paleolithic into view as part of a ‘deep history’ of human life (Mithen, 1998; Shryock and Smail, 2011; Smail, 2008). By deepening the historical framework in this way, history is also spatially widened to include areas and domains of experience not previously included within historical time which give predominance to the Eurasian civilizations of the ‘Axial Age’ (Mota, 2016). Such a deep historical perspective shows the present in a different light and not dominated by spatially bounded entities such as nations.…”

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“…Recent efforts by historians to overcome this division seek to bring the Neolithic and Paleolithic into view as part of a 'deep history' of human life (Shrycock and Smail 2011;Smail 2008 ;Mythen 1998). By deepening the historical framework in this way, history is also spatially widened to include areas and domains of experience not previously included within historical time which give predominance to the Eurasian civilisations of the 'Axial Age' (Mota 2016 One of the most promising avenues for further work in understanding the formation of human subjectivity is to explore the developmental or evolutionary logics and their interactions between geologic time, biological time, historical time as well as the history of consciousness. Current theorising on such interconnections has been mostly confined to the study of environmental influences on human history.…”

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Governing the Anthropocene

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2017

European Journal of Social Theory

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The growing body of literature on the idea of the Anthropocene has opened serious questions that go to the heart of the social and human sciences. There has been as yet no satisfactory theoretical framework for the analysis of the Anthropocene debate in the social and human sciences. The notion of the Anthropocene is not only a condition in which humans have become geologic agents and thus signalling a temporal shift in earth history: it can be seen as a new object of knowledge and an order of governance. A promising direction for theorising in the social and human science is to approach the notion of the Anthropocene as exemplified in new knowledge practices that have implications for governance. It invokes new conceptions of time, agency, knowledge and governance. The Anthropocene has become a way in which the human world is re-imagined culturally and politically in terms of its relation with the Earth. It entails a cultural model, that is an interpretative category by which contemporary societies make sense of the world as embedded in the earth and articulate a new kind of historical self-understanding, by which an alternative order of governance is projected. This points in the direction of cosmopolitics -and thus of a 'Cosmopolocene' -rather than a geologisation of the social or in the post-humanist philosophy, the end of the human condition as one marked by agency.

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Section: The Question Of Agency: Reconstitution Of Subjectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%