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The Age of Humans Meets Posthumanism: Reflections on Don DeLillo's Zero K
Studies in the Literary Imagination Pub Date : 2017-01-01 , DOI: 10.1353/sli.2017.0007
Alexandra K. Glavanakova

The scientific community disagrees over the date of the beginning of the Anthropocene. According to William Ruddiman, who proposed the “early Anthropocene” hypothesis, the onset of this era can be located some eight thousand years ago. The Anthropocene Working Group, set up by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) and also supported by the Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen, who is credited with coining the term in 2000, has suggested that the Anthropocene was ushered in by the Industrial Revolution (c. 1800 CE) (see “Anthropocene,” “Anthropocene Working”). Alternatively, the dawn of the Nuclear Age in the mid-1940s has been pinpointed as the dawn of the Anthropocene. Regardless of its still debatable origin, the concept itself can be applied productively for cultural and literary analysis. As a yet informal scientific term that still needs to be validated, the Anthropocene denotes a geological epoch marked by a new scale of human activity and agency that follows the Holocene. It highlights the extent of the impact of human activities—global and irreversible—on the state of our planet, especially on climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and environmental degradation. Taking into consideration the steep rise in the damaging effects of industrial development on the environment since the middle of the twentieth century, scientists have also identified the Anthropocene as the age of “Great Acceleration.”1 There are social and literary critics, however, who dissent from using the term Anthropocene but share a similar view on the status quo and a similar insistence on

中文翻译:

人类时代与后人类主义相遇:对唐·德利洛的《零K》的反思

科学界对人类世开始的日期表示不同意见。根据提出“早期人类世”假说的威廉·鲁迪曼(William Ruddiman)的说法,这个时代的开始可以追溯到大约八千年前。由国际地层学委员会第四纪地层小组委员会成立的人类世间工作组,也得到了诺贝尔奖得主保罗·克鲁岑的支持,后者在2000年被冠以这个名词,这表明人类世世代代由工业革命(约公元1800年)提出(参见“人类世”,“人类世工作”)。另外,人们将1940年代中期核时代的曙光定为人类世的曙光。不管其起源如何,该概念本身都可以有效地应用于文化和文学分析。作为尚待验证的非正式科学术语,人类世代表了一个全新世之后人类活动和活动的新规模标志着的地质时代。它强调了人类活动(全球性和不可逆转)对地球状况的影响程度,特别是对气候变化,生物多样性丧失和环境退化的影响。考虑到自20世纪中叶以来工业发展对环境造成的破坏性影响急剧上升,科学家还确定人类世为“大加速时代”。1然而,社会和文学批评家们反对使用人类世界一词,但对现状持相同观点,并坚持认为 人类世指的是一个新纪元以后以人类活动和活动的新规模为标志的地质时代。它强调了人类活动(全球性和不可逆转)对地球状况的影响程度,特别是对气候变化,生物多样性丧失和环境退化的影响。考虑到自20世纪中叶以来工业发展对环境造成的破坏性影响急剧上升,科学家还确定人类世为“大加速时代”。1然而,社会和文学批评家们反对使用人类世界一词,但对现状持相同观点,并坚持认为 人类世指的是一个新纪元以后以人类活动和活动的新规模为标志的地质时代。它强调了人类活动(全球性和不可逆转)对地球状况的影响程度,特别是对气候变化,生物多样性丧失和环境退化的影响。考虑到自20世纪中叶以来工业发展对环境造成的破坏性影响急剧上升,科学家还确定人类世为“大加速时代”。1然而,社会和文学批评家们反对使用人类世界一词,但对现状持相同观点,并坚持认为 它强调了人类活动(全球性和不可逆转)对地球状况的影响程度,特别是对气候变化,生物多样性丧失和环境退化的影响。考虑到自20世纪中叶以来工业发展对环境造成的破坏性影响急剧上升,科学家还确定人类世为“大加速时代”。1然而,社会和文学批评家们反对使用人类世界一词,但对现状持相同观点,并坚持认为 它强调了人类活动(全球性和不可逆转)对地球状况的影响程度,特别是对气候变化,生物多样性丧失和环境退化的影响。考虑到自20世纪中叶以来工业发展对环境造成的破坏性影响急剧上升,科学家还确定人类世为“大加速时代”。1然而,社会和文学批评家们反对使用人类世界一词,但对现状持相同观点,并坚持认为
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