Antropocene

The chapter addresses the issue of the Anthropocene as a public issue raising strong controversies over its origin and responsibilities. Different narratives are proposed with related political implications. Influential accounts claim that Anthropocene is an existential condition involving the whole humankind, yet it entertains an ambivalent relation with another narrative, that of Gaia, producing a mixture of claims about gaining full control over climate and turning to a politics of resilience and expediency vis-à-vis a fully agential materiality. This account resonates in new materialisms. The paper proposes an alternative account in order to break with the veridictive dispositive that hampers any actual action.