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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,018 ratings — published 2014
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,053 ratings — published 2015
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.99 — 29,758 ratings — published 2019
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.35 — 173,166 ratings — published 2021
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,936 ratings — published 2015
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.43 — 637 ratings — published 2016
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
by (shelved 14 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,800 ratings — published 2016
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,784 ratings — published 2016
The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.24 — 495 ratings — published 2013
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.01 — 598 ratings — published 2018
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,654 ratings — published 2014
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,365 ratings — published 2013
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.23 — 20,979 ratings — published 2019
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,737 ratings — published 2017
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,816 ratings — published 2006
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.06 — 54,677 ratings — published 1962
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,086 ratings — published 2021
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.51 — 170,546 ratings — published 2013
Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.32 — 798 ratings — published 2015
After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.82 — 339 ratings — published 2015
Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.62 — 204 ratings — published 2015
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,655 ratings — published 2021
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,048 ratings — published 1990
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,249,500 ratings — published 2011
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.06 — 904 ratings — published 2014
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.80 — 299,567 ratings — published 2014
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,575 ratings — published 2020
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures)
by (shelved 5 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.67 — 729 ratings — published 2016
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,009 ratings — published 2020
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,012 ratings — published 2013
The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.27 — 712 ratings — published 2018
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,191 ratings — published 2010
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.11 — 194,711 ratings — published 2018
Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.95 — 305 ratings — published 2018
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.19 — 259,388 ratings — published 1993
Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.92 — 317 ratings — published 2015
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,108 ratings — published 2023
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,447 ratings — published 2021
Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.01 — 148 ratings — published 2017
Weather (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.54 — 39,484 ratings — published 2020
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
by (shelved 4 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,458 ratings — published 2010
This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,124 ratings — published 2019
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,427 ratings — published 2015
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.00 — 286,466 ratings — published 2003
Losing Earth: A Recent History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,228 ratings — published 2018
Flight Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.82 — 101,847 ratings — published 2012
The End of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,125 ratings — published 1989
Anthropocene or Capitalocene?: Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism (KAIROS)
by (shelved 4 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.76 — 199 ratings — published 2016
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,310 ratings — published 2007
The Birth of the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anthropocene)
avg rating 3.82 — 87 ratings — published 2016
“Freud described three great historical wounds to the primary narcissism of the self-centered human subject, who tries to hold panic at bay by the fantasy of human exceptionalism.
First is the Copernican wound that removed Earth itself, man’s home world, from the center of the cosmos and indeed paved the way for that cosmos to burst open into a universe of inhumane, nonteleological times and spaces. Science made that decentering cut.
The second wound is the Darwinian, which put Homo sapiens firmly in the world of other critters, all trying to make an earthly living and so evolving in relation to one another without the sureties of directional signposts that culminate in Man. Science inflicted that cruel cut too.
The third wound is the Freudian, which posited an unconscious that undid the primacy of conscious processes, including the reason that comforted Man with his unique excellence, with dire consequences for teleology once again. Science seems to hold that blade too.
I want to add a fourth wound, the informatic or cyborgian, which infolds organic and technological flesh and so melds that Great Divide as well.”
― When Species Meet
First is the Copernican wound that removed Earth itself, man’s home world, from the center of the cosmos and indeed paved the way for that cosmos to burst open into a universe of inhumane, nonteleological times and spaces. Science made that decentering cut.
The second wound is the Darwinian, which put Homo sapiens firmly in the world of other critters, all trying to make an earthly living and so evolving in relation to one another without the sureties of directional signposts that culminate in Man. Science inflicted that cruel cut too.
The third wound is the Freudian, which posited an unconscious that undid the primacy of conscious processes, including the reason that comforted Man with his unique excellence, with dire consequences for teleology once again. Science seems to hold that blade too.
I want to add a fourth wound, the informatic or cyborgian, which infolds organic and technological flesh and so melds that Great Divide as well.”
― When Species Meet
“How can you regain confidence when you know that confidence is just a varnish painted atop human frailty?”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
