My goal in this article is to reconsider current ideas of globalisation, and of the relations between nature and society, by looking at two theoretical programmes of the past four decades. I start by reconsidering Ulrich Beck’s theory of risk society and highlight some of its core strengths and weaknesses. I then revisit more recent debates on the Anthropocene and unpack some key dimensions. There, I contend that arguments on the Anthropocene allow us to develop a more robust concept of globalisation than those currently available: an idea of globalisation that is the inescapable condition of what humans are as a species. Finally, I offer some preliminary reflections on the new stage of globalisation that seems to have started with the Covid-19 pandemic.

我在本文中的目标是通过回顾过去四个十年中的两个理论程序，重新考虑当前的全球化思想以及自然与社会之间的关系。首先，我将重新考虑乌尔里希·贝克（Ulrich Beck）的风险社会理论，并强调其一些核心优点和缺点。然后，我回顾关于人类世的最新辩论，并剖析一些关键方面。在这里，我认为与人类世界有关的争论使我们能够发展出一个比目前可用的全球化更为健全的全球化概念：全球化的思想是人类作为一个物种不可避免的条件。最后，我对全球化的新阶段提供了一些初步的思考，该阶段似乎始于Covid-19大流行。