... the postmodern to the post-postmodern, or exomodern. The most important of these, no doubt, is the recent nomination of the geological present as the “Anthropocene.” This is an epoch when, according to chemist Paul Crutzen and others, human beings must be considered prime actors in the natural history...

... to the accelerated “future shock” of cultural change. Climate scientists and environmentalists have “declared a new geological age, the Anthropocene, that putatively started around two hundred years ago—an age in which human impact itself has become the dominant shaping force on the planet” (253). Perhaps...

...- man presence that leaves no particle of nature unaltered. Because of this global impact, the Nobel laureate chemist Paul Crutzen has labeled the contemporary era the “Anthropocene,” an age in which humans are no longer just the biological agents they have always been, but have become...

... with J. M. Coetzee .” Commonwealth 9 , no. 1 : 1 – 7 . Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty . 2014 . “ Lie Down in the Karoo: An Antidote to the Anthropocene .” Public Books , June 1 . http://www.publicbooks.org/lie-down-in-the-karoo-an-antidote-to-the-anthropocene/ . Tajiri Yoshiki...

... . Luciano Dana . 2015 . “ The Inhuman Anthropocene .” Avidly , March 22 . avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2015/03/22/the-inhuman-anthropocene/ . Luciano Dana . 2016 . “ Speaking Substances: Rock .” Los Angeles Review of Books , April 12 . lareviewofbooks.org/article/speaking-substances...

.... Prescient, Wells’s novella speaks to the parallel phenomena entangled in the strange relation between extinction and empathy. Copyright © Hofstra University 2019 Anthropocene ecocriticism evolution Piltdown science Long ago, H. G. Wells saw the future. And like one recent vision...