2025
Lenzi, Dominic
The Earth System in the Anthropocene and the Primacy of Joint Collective Ownership Journal Article
In: Journal of Social Philosophy, 2025.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Anthropocene, Earth system, Humanity
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title = {The Earth System in the Anthropocene and the Primacy of Joint Collective Ownership},
author = {Dominic Lenzi},
url = {https://www.esdit.nl/wp-content/uploads/Journal-of-Social-Philosophy-2025-Lenzi-The-Earth-System-in-the-Anthropocene-and-the-Primacy-of-Joint-Collective.pdf},
doi = {10.1111/josp.12608},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-03-26},
urldate = {2025-03-26},
journal = {Journal of Social Philosophy},
abstract = {When human beings began making claims to possess the ‘bounty of nature,’ the functioning of the Earth was physically independent of our species. That this is no longer the case is a profound and shocking development. According to the United Nations, human beings have “transformed the Earth's natural systems, exceeding their capacity and disrupting their self-regulatory mechanisms, with irreversible consequences for global humanity” (United Nations 2022). Long noted by natural scientists ,the extent of this transformation is often marked by the label ‘Anthropocene’, i.e. the epoch characterized by human impacts upon the Earth (Crutzen 2002).1 From a physical perspective, the Anthropocene signals a radical break with the past, “an entirely new, no-analogue state of the Earth system” (Kim 2021, 4).},
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When human beings began making claims to possess the ‘bounty of nature,’ the functioning of the Earth was physically independent of our species. That this is no longer the case is a profound and shocking development. According to the United Nations, human beings have “transformed the Earth's natural systems, exceeding their capacity and disrupting their self-regulatory mechanisms, with irreversible consequences for global humanity” (United Nations 2022). Long noted by natural scientists ,the extent of this transformation is often marked by the label ‘Anthropocene’, i.e. the epoch characterized by human impacts upon the Earth (Crutzen 2002).1 From a physical perspective, the Anthropocene signals a radical break with the past, “an entirely new, no-analogue state of the Earth system” (Kim 2021, 4).
2023
Hannes, Tom; Bombaerts, Gunter
What does it mean that all is aflame? Non-axial Buddhist inspiration for an Anthropocene ontology Journal Article
In: The Anthropocene Review, vol. 10, pp. 771-786, 2023.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Anthropocene, axial age, Buddhism, Charles Taylor, Clive Hamilton, eco-modernism, Ontology, post-humanism, Zen
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title = {What does it mean that all is aflame? Non-axial Buddhist inspiration for an Anthropocene ontology},
author = {Tom Hannes and Gunter Bombaerts},
url = {https://www.esdit.nl/what-does-it-mean-that-all-is-aflame/},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/205301962311539},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-12-01},
urldate = {2023-12-01},
journal = {The Anthropocene Review},
volume = {10},
pages = {771-786},
abstract = {Bruno Latour’s “practical climatoscepticism” expresses our moral inhibition with respect to the climate crisis. In spite of Clive Hamilton’s claim that the Anthropocene condition requires us to be suspicious of all previous (i.e. Holocene) ontologies, we propose a threefold Anthropocene ontological structure inspired by non-axial Buddhist elements. In the ontological field, the overall domain in which meaning is searched for, the Buddhist relationalist view on existence can nurture post-humanist philosophies. For the ontological home, one’s specific position and responsibilities, the Buddhist concept “dharma-position” can feed into Hamilton’s “new anthropocentrism.” For the ontological path, the ideal qualities of our interactions, the Buddhist “brahmaviharas” can lend functional structure to the tensions between philosophies of radical acceptance and engaged action. We discuss how this threefold ontological structure provides partial answers to Latour’s “practical climatoscepticism” and Hamilton’s no-analogue world. We sketch avenues for investigation for various Anthropocene ontologies.},
keywords = {Anthropocene, axial age, Buddhism, Charles Taylor, Clive Hamilton, eco-modernism, Ontology, post-humanism, Zen},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Bruno Latour’s “practical climatoscepticism” expresses our moral inhibition with respect to the climate crisis. In spite of Clive Hamilton’s claim that the Anthropocene condition requires us to be suspicious of all previous (i.e. Holocene) ontologies, we propose a threefold Anthropocene ontological structure inspired by non-axial Buddhist elements. In the ontological field, the overall domain in which meaning is searched for, the Buddhist relationalist view on existence can nurture post-humanist philosophies. For the ontological home, one’s specific position and responsibilities, the Buddhist concept “dharma-position” can feed into Hamilton’s “new anthropocentrism.” For the ontological path, the ideal qualities of our interactions, the Buddhist “brahmaviharas” can lend functional structure to the tensions between philosophies of radical acceptance and engaged action. We discuss how this threefold ontological structure provides partial answers to Latour’s “practical climatoscepticism” and Hamilton’s no-analogue world. We sketch avenues for investigation for various Anthropocene ontologies.
Zwier, Jochem; de Boer, Bas
Earth Becomes World? Scientific Objects, Nonmodern Worlds, and the Metaphysics of the Anthropocene Journal Article
In: Environmental Humanities, vol. 15, iss. 1, pp. 64-68, 2023.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Anthropocene, Earth system science, Modernity
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title = {Earth Becomes World? Scientific Objects, Nonmodern Worlds, and the Metaphysics of the Anthropocene},
author = {Jochem Zwier and Bas de Boer},
doi = {10.1215/22011919-10216162},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-03-01},
urldate = {2023-03-01},
journal = {Environmental Humanities},
volume = {15},
issue = {1},
pages = {64-68},
keywords = {Anthropocene, Earth system science, Modernity},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}