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Abstract

For the names of the preceding three geologic epochs - the Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene - translate respectively as "newer time," "newest time," and "entirely new time" and thus give these seemingly neutral period designators an inexorable orientation toward the present. "Com a desintegraçao da estabilidade aparente", escreve Olamina em seu diário, "... as pessoas cedem ao medo e a depressao, a carencia e ganância"8 - When no influence is strong enough to unite people they divide, they struggle, one against one, group against group, for survival, position, power. hey remember old hates and generate new ones, they create chaos and nurture it. hey kill and kill and kill.. . Bear elaborates a complex social portrait of species change. his story is overdetermined by weaving together government security agencies, Senate hearings, journalistic scoops, scientific conferences, anthropologists in difficult disputes over artefacts in Native American territories, private drug companies competing for patents, disease control agencies, and the pressure of the evangelical Christian right. Partindo do conceito de antropoceno como chave de leitura, busquei discutir como as antropo-cenas representadas nas ficçöes especulativas discutidas aqui esbarram em um amplo escopo de questöes, e em questöes de amplo escopo, como as que Latour delineia abaixo: [h¡this new concept [Anthropocene] defines the human agency by drawing on a bewildering range of entities, some clearly related to the "natural" sciences - biochemistry, DNA, evolutionary trends, rock formation, ecosystem - while others clearly relate to what ethnographers have learned to register throughout their field work - patterns of land use, migrations of plants, animal and people, city life, trajectory of epidemics, demography, inequalities, classes and state policies.

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Title
O ANTROPOCENO E A ANTROPO-CENA PÓS-HUMANA: NARRATIVAS DE CATÁSTROFE E CONTAMINAÇÃO
Author
Torres, Sonia 1 

 Universidade Federal Fluminense/CNPq Rio de Janeiro, BR 
Pages
93-105
Publication year
2017
Publication date
May-Aug 2017
Publisher
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC Centro de Comunicação e Expressão
ISSN
01014846
e-ISSN
21758026
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English; Portuguese
ProQuest document ID
2290107566
Copyright
© 2017. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.