Antroposen ve Bellek Çalışmaları: “İnsanı Savunmak”
Anthropocene and Memory Studies: “Defending the Human”

Summary/Abstract: What are the ways to consider the crisis of memory and the crisis of ecology together in the Anthropocene universe, adapting this to new forms of subjectivation, opportunities for social action, and diverse political projections? This study emphasizes the lack of a single, unified definition of the Anthropocene and the importance of considering diverse approaches and theoretical underpinnings for a critical foundation. It traces the intellectual and political strands underlying the various milestones and designations of the Anthropocene, and discusses the transformation of all the baggage of modernity (both originary, such as temporality and spatiality, and social, such as collective and responsibility) that memory studies carry, by analyzing the postmodernist threads of the Anthropocene that propose a new conception of the human. This study examines the trilogy of the Anthropocene, memory, and postmodernism through a critique of Bernard Stiegler's technical understanding and methodological orientations, and opens up a discussion of the political capacity and potential of memory in our time.

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