What is the Anthropocene and why does it matter? What does it mean to say that humans, or industrial society at least, have become a force of planetary change or, indeed, that we are entering a period of unparalleled change, risk and uncertainty? How should we think, talk about and respond, both within and outside academia and its various disciplines, to the world’s cascading and interconnected planetary crises?<\/p>\n
Based on excerpts from a lecture and field trips that form part of a module<\/a> taught by environmental anthropologist Dr Miguel Alexiades<\/a>,\u00a0the film explores the provocation that the Anthropocene not only heralds a new geological epoch, but a new epoch of thought.<\/p>\n