What does the proclamation of the Anthropocene – an epoch in which the human is said to have become a geological agent and who’s had irreversible impact upon our planet (Kolbert, 2014; Klein, 2014) – mean for media and cultural studies? ­Reflecting on the crisis of human and nonhuman life as manifested in ongoing multispecies extinction, this contribution discusses how media and cultural studies can engage with the ‘geological turn’ (Ellsworth and Kruse, 2013). It also considers whether it makes sense to practice media and cultural studies from the ­perspective of deep, i.e. geological, time. Zylinska argues that this ‘naturecultural’ mode of thinking can be traced back to Raymond Williams’s idea of culture as ‘transformation of substance at a biological level’ (1997). Yet the Anthropocene may open up media and cultural studies to new ways of engaging with nature and culture, by raising questions about issues of distribution, environment and the privileging of the human as the central point of ethics (Zylinska 2015). At the same time, in its attention to both matter and ­discourse, media and cultural studies can help rein in some of the rhetorical excesses of the Anthropocene debate. Through its hermeneutic tools, it can also challenge an uncritical and moralistic focus on materiality that ‘the geological turn’ at times implies.

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遭遇人类世：地质，文化，伦理

宣布人类世的时代对人类媒体和文化研究意味着什么？在这个时代，人类已成为地质因素，谁对我们的星球产生了不可逆转的影响（科尔伯特，2014；克莱因，2014）？考虑到人类和非人类生命的危机正在持续的多物种灭绝中表现出来，该论文讨论了媒体和文化研究如何与“地质转向”互动（Ellsworth and Kruse，2013）。它还从深度（即地质）时间的角度考虑进行媒体和文化研究是否有意义。齐林斯卡认为，这种“自然文化”的思维方式可以追溯到雷蒙德·威廉姆斯（Raymond Williams）的文化观念，即“生物学层面上物质的转化”（1997）。然而，人类世界可能会通过提出有关作为伦理学中心点的分布，环境和人类特权问题来开放媒体和文化研究，以新的方式与自然和文化互动（Zylinska，2015）。同时，在对物质和话语的关注上，媒体和文化研究可以帮助遏制人类世间辩论的某些夸大的言辞。通过其解释工具，它还可以挑战有时会“地质转向”所暗示的对物质性的非批判性和道德主义关注。媒体和文化研究可以帮助遏制人类世间辩论的某些夸大的言辞。通过其解释工具，它还可以挑战有时会“地质转向”所暗示的对物质性的非批判性和道德主义关注。媒体和文化研究可以帮助遏制人类世间辩论的某些夸大的言辞。通过其解释工具，它还可以挑战有时会“地质转向”所暗示的对物质性的非批判性和道德主义关注。