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"On the Poverty of Our Nomenclature"
Eileen Crist critiques the recent proposal to name our current geological epoch “the Anthropocene.”
Eileen Crist critiques the recent proposal to name our current geological epoch “the Anthropocene.”
The authors introduce a special section of Environmental Humanities on manifestations of deep time through places, objects, and practices, focusing on three modes through which it is encountered: enchantment, violence, and haunting.
The authors put forward the idea of “speculative geology” to explain the violence inherent in volcanism, drawing on three volcanic episodes and the more recent unexpected striking of magma in Iceland’s Krafla volcanic caldera.