Mihnea Tănăsescu on Ecocene Politics: Difference between revisions
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Locked in our anthropocentric bubble, we humans have failed to see that we are deeply entangled with nature and not separate and superior to it. If humanity is to survive, it will have to learn how to get in sync with natural systems, culturally and economically, and actively contribute to the flourishing of earthly and human systems in tandem. | Locked in our anthropocentric bubble, we humans have failed to see that we are deeply entangled with nature and not separate and superior to it. If humanity is to survive, it will have to learn how to get in sync with natural systems, culturally and economically, and actively contribute to the flourishing of earthly and human systems in tandem. | ||
Hence the title of Tănăsescu’s 2022 book, Ecocene Politics. Our epoch is “characterized by the increasingly frequent intrusion of ecological processes into political life,” as the book puts it. If you can recognize this reality, it becomes clear that our politics, economy, and culture must actively learn new post-modern ways of being and doing, and adapt appropriately. That is the task ahead. Trying to shore up or restore the collapsing edifice of modernity is a fool’s errand." | Hence the title of Tănăsescu’s 2022 book, [[Ecocene Politics]]. Our epoch is “characterized by the increasingly frequent intrusion of ecological processes into political life,” as the book puts it. If you can recognize this reality, it becomes clear that our politics, economy, and culture must actively learn new post-modern ways of being and doing, and adapt appropriately. That is the task ahead. Trying to shore up or restore the collapsing edifice of modernity is a fool’s errand." | ||
(https://www.bollier.org/blog/anthropocene-no-were-actually-entering-ecocene) | (https://www.bollier.org/blog/anthropocene-no-were-actually-entering-ecocene) | ||
Latest revision as of 12:35, 30 October 2023
Podcast via https://david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/mihnea-tanasescu-on-the-need-for-ecocene-politics
Description
David Bollier:
"Mihnea Tănăsescu, a brilliant Romanian-born, Belgium-based academic, urges that we ... recognize this geological era of Earth as the Ecocene.
Locked in our anthropocentric bubble, we humans have failed to see that we are deeply entangled with nature and not separate and superior to it. If humanity is to survive, it will have to learn how to get in sync with natural systems, culturally and economically, and actively contribute to the flourishing of earthly and human systems in tandem.
Hence the title of Tănăsescu’s 2022 book, Ecocene Politics. Our epoch is “characterized by the increasingly frequent intrusion of ecological processes into political life,” as the book puts it. If you can recognize this reality, it becomes clear that our politics, economy, and culture must actively learn new post-modern ways of being and doing, and adapt appropriately. That is the task ahead. Trying to shore up or restore the collapsing edifice of modernity is a fool’s errand."
(https://www.bollier.org/blog/anthropocene-no-were-actually-entering-ecocene)