ABSTRACT
The designation of Earth as humanity's home is central to the story of the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is a warning: that it is no longer the community, the neighbourhood, the city, or even the nation state that is now the primary locus of safety or danger, but the Earth itself. One of the perils of these 'uncharted waters' is that Anthropocene discourse appears to fit well with a 'politics of emergency' whereby conditions of crisis or catastrophe are mobilised to justify the suspension of established political rights and procedures. The Anthropocene unsettles both familiar modes of planetary consciousness and notions of human agency. Rethinking the meaning of 'temporary home' in the transitional moment of the Anthropocene means imagining a revised geopolitics, or cosmopolitics that could enable us to co-inhabit an increasingly fractious world. The crisis of the Anthropocene is hard to grasp in its pervasiveness: rising oceans, drowning cities, seasonal disruptions, toxic deserts, species extinctions, forced migrations.
