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The Sedanthropocene: Nomadism, Ecology, Hypernormalization: Toward Reimagining the Holocene

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  • David Selsky

    (Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada)

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The various (s)cenes of Anthropocene discourse are attempts to conceptualize the problem of anthropogenic global warming and to better understand the problem with a view to possible solutions. This paper explores, in a series of theoretic vignettes, ways that these attempts are too myopic and narrow, and tend to ignore the possibility that the most fundamental levels of social organization might be the very conditions under which other ‘cenes’ can function at all. Specifically, Jason Moore’s Capitalocene describes and explains many symptoms of a world enraptured by capital. However, the beginning of the Holocene marks an historical stage wherein humans changed their thoughts and behaviours in such a way as to make something like capitalism possible at all. The dualism that Moore cites as fundamental to the Capitalocene did not begin with Descartes, it began with anatomically modern humans circa 10,000 years ago.

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  • David Selsky, 2019. "The Sedanthropocene: Nomadism, Ecology, Hypernormalization: Toward Reimagining the Holocene," Societies, MDPI, vol. 9(1), pages 1-13, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsoctx:v:9:y:2019:i:1:p:21-:d:213749
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    1. Charles Stubblefield, 2018. "Managing the Planet: The Anthropocene, Good Stewardship, and the Empty Promise of a Solution to Ecological Crisis," Societies, MDPI, vol. 8(2), pages 1-25, June.
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