Stratigraphy for the Renaissance: Questions of expertise for ‘the environment’ and ‘the Anthropocene’
Stratigraphy for the Renaissance: Questions of expertise for ‘the environment’ and ‘the Anthropocene’
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文艺复兴时期的地层学：“环境”和“人类世”的专业知识问题
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2017
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S. Sörlin
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P. Warde;L. Robin;S. Sörlin
本文考察了国际地层学委员会在审议“人类世”一词的有效性时的科学决策和专业知识的短暂历史。与人们担心人类世的争论构成了适当科学实践的政治化相反，它认为科学中的分期和分类（在这种情况下是地层学）通常利用核心学科实践之外的专业知识和信息。当广泛的综合概念发挥作用时，知识本身就被重塑了。学科和“非科学”的关注彼此之间发展了新的关系。这就是在科学以现代形式出现的文艺复兴时期所发生的事情。这里将战后“环境”概念的出现与21世纪对“人类世”概念的争论进行了比较。科学的政治创造了不确定性，但同样孕育了分析的新可能性，这与人文学科的广泛分类和分期（如文艺复兴）没有什么不同。
This article examines the short history of scientific decision-making and expertise in deliberations about the validity of the term ‘Anthropocene’ by the International Commission on Stratigraphy. Contrary to fears that the Anthropocene debates constitute a politicisation of proper scientific practice, it argues that periodisation and categorisation in science (in stratigraphy, in this case) typically draws on expertise and information outside core disciplinary practice. When broad integrative concepts come into play, knowledge itself is reshaped. Disciplines and ‘non-scientific’ concerns develop new relations with each other. This is what happened in the Renaissance, when science itself emerged in its modern form. Here parallels are drawn between the emergence of the concept ‘the environment’ in the post-war era and the 21st-century struggles over the idea of ‘the Anthropocene’. The politics of science create uncertainties but equally nurture emergent possibilities for analysis that are not unlike the broad categories and periodisations – such as the Renaissance – in the humanities.