How Anthropocene Made Modernity
The Oxford-Penn-Toronto IDC in the Environmental Humanities is delighted to invite you to a lecture with Amanda Power from Oxford University: 'How the Anthropocene Made Modernity'.
The formal diagnosis of Anthropocene through physical markers of human transformations of the earth priorities a materiality that asks ‘when’ before ‘how’ and ‘why’. In this talk Amanda Power shows how early expansionist policies across the globe envisaged ‘civilization ’as the successful exploitation by elites of landscapes, ecologies, and human and non-human life, such that ceasing to dominate the earth was an illegitimate choice.
