Humanities under the shock of anthropocene: inquiring history and ecology from Bonneuil e Moore

Abstract

Paper examines the impact of the Anthropocene event on Humanities. The passage from the Holocene geological age to the Anthropocene brought by Earth scientists makes the great modern divide between nature and culture in check. Since nature itself is transformed by the impact of technology and social systems, the maintenance of the rigid boundary loses its meaning. Heuristically, two examples are presented to think about this double transformation: in Bonneuil, Fressoz, and Jouvancourt, it is the concept of history adopted by the scientists that need to be reviewed by historiography that listen to voices conquered in the construction of the Anthropocene; in Jason Moore, is the concept of nature that needs to be revisited by the historiography of capitalism and world-systems. Thus, we come to the concept of geo-humanities to think about the context of the Anthropocene.