ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows the practical enactment of objects as containing complex temporal and spatial dimensions. It focuses on the relation between the eminently material practice of inscribing names on rocks and the complex temporal horizons that it generates. The implications of the Anthropocene for anthropology are arguably quite mixed. On one hand, many anthropologists are vocal critics of this discourse, drawing attention to colonialism and the unequal capitalist development that brought about planetary environmental change in the first place. Dealing with diverse sorts of entanglements, contributors depict intricate and often perplexing configurations of relational things. Tracing the vertiginous motions of the world multiple can be seen as a response to this new challenge; one in which the Earth, the world, other species, and entities all reveal hitherto unseen aspects of one another.
