Naukowcy i antropos. Antropocen czy oligantropocen?
Scientists and Anthropos: Anthropocene or Oligantopocene?

Summary/Abstract: This is a translation of passages from the chapter “Le savant et l’antrophos: Anthropocène ou Oliganthropocène” from Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s book L’Événement Anthropocène: La Terre, l’histoire et nous, Paris: Seuil, 2016., pp. 83-118 (The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us in David Fernbach’s English translation). In their groundbreaking book The Shock of the Anthropocene, Bonneuil and Fressoz discuss the relationship between science as a modern institution of organising individual life in its biological and organic dimension and social life, which is subordinated to faith in technological progress and the paradigm of infinite capital accumulation. The authors propose that the anthropocene is not only the peak and negative point of the project of modernity – a different way of thinking about science and new scientistic practices will be more than utopian visions – above all, they will be ways to maintain the diversity of life and to reverse humankind’s separation from the world.

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