ABSTRACT
The Anthropocene thesis is the proposition that we are entering or have already entered a new geological epoch in the Earth's 4.6 billion year history: one in which human agency can be compared to a determining planetary force. The Anthropocene announces the meshing of inhuman and human forces in a configuration of mutual threat. In 2014 the Anthropocene Working Group offered four key time periods as potential placement for the base of the Anthropocene: the pre-Industrial Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the mid-20th century age, and the future. The Anthropocene names the intersection of human history and geological time; in the same moment, it supercedes the concept of nature as a stable non-human background to human-made history. Anthropocene rock folds in temporal co-existence and non-existence in its intertwined strata. The dominant narratives of the Anthropocene deal with the more predictable and readable geological impacts.
