How can we incorporate humanist critiques of the Anthropocene while harnessing the notion’s potential for challenging political imagination? Placing the Anthropocene offers one way forward; the notion of an African Anthropocene offers a productive paradox that holds planetary temporality and specific human lives in a single frame. Navigating the Anthropocene from Africa requires attending to scale both as an analytic and an actor category. In order to do so, this essay proposes the notion of interscalar vehicles: objects and modes of analysis that permit scholars and their subjects to move simultaneously through deep time and human time, through geological space and political space. This essay discusses the creation and destruction of value/waste and pasts/futures around a uranium mine in Mounana, Gabon, to unpack the political, ethical, epistemological, and affective dimensions of interscalar vehicles and their violent Anthropocenic implications.

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非洲人类世的标间车：关于废物，临时性和暴力

在利用这一观念挑战政治想象力的同时，我们如何融合人类学对人类世界的批评？放置人类世提供了一种前进的方式。非洲人类世生的概念提供了一种富有成效的悖论，它将行星的时间性和特定的人类生命统一在一个框架中。从非洲穿越人类世界需要既要扩大规模又要作为分析和演员类别。为了做到这一点，本文提出了标间车辆的概念：分析对象和分析模式，使学者及其研究对象可以同时穿越更深的时间和人类的时间，穿越地质空间和政治空间。本文讨论了加蓬Mounana铀矿周围价值/废物和过去/未来的创造和破坏，以揭示政治，道德，