Geologic Life: Prehistory, Climate, Futures in the Anthropocene
Geologic Life: Prehistory, Climate, Futures in the Anthropocene
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地质生命：史前史、气候、人类世的未来
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10.1068/d11512
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2013
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Kathryn Yusoff
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Kathryn Yusoff
对人类世的诊断提出了一个新的地质时代，将人类指定为具有地貌力量的生物，将地球系统塑造成与非人类力量同等的力量。这种社会地质学标志着一种由石炭纪化石燃料驱动的非人类行星动力的上升。然而，没有一个地方是地球物理学的，基因组学的，这种地质主体化的社会叙事被认为是在一起询问这些地质能力，不仅仅是在对地球的影响方面，而是作为主体共享的力量-地质力量组成和区分珊瑚和集体生物政治形成。我认为，在本文中，人类世的概念是公理的时间，物质和机构的新的理解，为人类作为一个集体的存在，并作为一个主体能够地貌行为;不仅影响地质学但它是一个过度的力量。这种人类沉浸在地质时代既暗示了人类起源的一种特殊化，也暗示了人类时间尺度的转变，生物生命过程演化为时代生命和物种生命过程。这篇论文的结构是两个虚构的主题之间的一个适度的对话，定义了人类世叙事弧的想象起源和结束-一个来自人类起源的史前史，另一个来自人类世的未来-在关于时间的对话中，地质学，和非人的祝福。研究化石的材料和话语结在叙事弧的人类成为，我认为一个“地质转向”，认真对待不仅是我们的生物（或生物政治）的生活，但我们的地质（或地缘政治）的生活和它的分化形式。化石解开了这个生与死、时间与时间、肉体与不朽的等式，这表明需要一种地质学理论，并对活的身体中无声物质的力量进行估算：一种由非人类力量驱动的肉体。本文探讨了我所谓的“地质生命”-人类组成的矿物学维度，目前在社会思想中仍然处于理论化阶段，与化石燃料的物质，时间和生物学概念化直接相关。这种地质生命促使我们需要重新思考人类作为地球在史前、当代和面向未来的化身中的领土化力量的一致性。因此，本文提出了一个推测性的理论框架，在人类世的地质生活的思维方式。
The diagnostic of the Anthropocene proposes a new geological epoch that designates humans as beings capable of geomorphic force, shaping Earth systems on a par with inhuman forces. This social geology marks an ascendance to inhuman planetary power fuelled by fossil fuels from the Carboniferous. Yet nowhere are the geophysical, genomic, and social narratives of this geologic subjectification considered together to interrogate these geologic capacities, not just in terms of impacts on the Earth, but as forces that subjects share—geologic forces that compose and differentiate corporeal and collective biopolitical formations. I argue in this paper that the concept of the Anthropocene is axiomatic of new understandings of time, matter, and agency for the human as a collective being and as a subject capable of geomorphic acts; a being that not just affects geology, but is an intemperate force within it. This immersion of humanity into geologic time suggests both a remineralisation of the origins of the human and a shift in the human timescale from biological life course to that of epoch and species—life. The paper is structured as a modest conversation between two fossilised subjects that define the imagined origin and ending of the narrative arc of the Anthropocene—one from the prehistory of human origins, the other from the future of the Anthropocene—in a conversation about time, geology, and inhuman becomings. Examining fossils as material and discursive knots in the narrative arc of human becoming, I argue for a ‘geological turn’ that takes seriously not just our biological (or biopolitical) life, but also our geological (or geopolitical) life and its forms of differentiation. Fossils unlock this life—death, time—untimely, corporeal—incorporeal equation, suggesting the need for a theory of the geologic and a reckoning with the forces of mute matter in lively bodies: a corporeality that is driven by inhuman forces. This paper investigates what I am calling “geologic life”—a mineralogical dimension of human composition that remains currently undertheorised in social thought and is directly relevant for the material, temporal, and corporeal conceptualisation of fossil fuels. This geologic life prompts a need to rethink the coherency of the human as a territorialising force of the Earth in its prehistoric, contemporary, and future-orientated incarnation. As such, this paper proposes a speculative theoretical framework for thinking modes of geologic life within the Anthropocene.