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As many geologists have proposed, we are now living in the age of the Anthropocene – an unstable geological epoch in which humans and their actions are the main driver of catastrophic environmental change. In this conceptualisation of temporality, the future is no longer preceded by the present, but it is rather approaching, impacting upon, or even becoming the present. The catastrophe matters, but perhaps what matters most is the revelation of what that forthcoming catastrophe entails.This challenges both our spatial and temporal ontologies, bending Euclidean space to register as a kind of simultaneity, rather than linear chronology. Experiencing the crisis through the perspective of time challenges our anthropocentric perception and notions of progress Viewing time as a point allows for switching very quickly between time and almost coexisting in these realms.
monsters and ghosts of the Russian Arctic
Andra Pop-Jurj
TEMPORALITY CONCEPT
