Of the Anthropocene: references

Shelflist

Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature Anna Loewenhaupt Tsing et al. (2024) (Kindle Notebook)

Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene Bruce Clarke (2020) Kindle

The Anthropocene Project Edward Burtynsky at Emergence Magazine (2018)

Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen Cymene Howe and Anand Pandian at culanth.org (2016) [see bibliography]

What Next? at /Conviv

...I found it useful to look again at Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence, which was James Lovelock's last book, published in 2019 when he was 100 years old (he died in 2022), which I read a few months ago in the context of explorations of the Gaia Hypothesis (in a nutshell: "Life and the Earth are an interacting whole and the planet can be seen as a single organism" [pg x]). Lovelock's Novacene is conceived as an Age that succeeds the Anthropocene (which may be thought of as beginning in 1712, with Thomas Newcomen's steam engine, or perhaps in 1945, with the atomic bomb, its effects traced by radionuclides in ice cores and lake cores).

The Anthropocene as a historical hyperobject Daniel Rueda in Rethinking History (2022) (pdf)

On Kindle
Anthropocene NOW!: How the whole of human history supports the idea that we are living in the Anthropocene, literally meaning 'age of humans' Neil Pitts (2026) (Kindle)

Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction Erle C Ellis (2018) (Kindle)

A Short History of the World According to Sheep Sally Coulthard (2020) (Kindle)

The Domestication of Horses: A Captivating Guide to the History and Impact of Horses from Ancient Times to Modern Day (2025)

Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World — A History of Civilization Through Trial and Error, Ice Age to Bronze Age Patrick Wyman (2026) (Kindle)

Mesopotamia: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Mesopotamian History and Civilizations, Including the Sumerians and Sumerian Mythology, Gilgamesh, Ur, ... Persian Empire (2019) (Kindle)

The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World Virginia I. Postrel (2020) (Kindle)

From my drives

Facing Death at the End of the Anthropocene A Buddhist take on eco-anxiety and ethics Alison Forster at Medium (20i25)

Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems Peter M. Vitousek et al. Science (1997) (pdf)