Abstract This paper considers the Anthroposcenic, whereby landscape becomes emblematic of processes marking the Anthropocene, through a specific site, Eccles on the northeast coast of Norfolk, England. The coast has become a key landscape for reflections on the Anthropocene, not least through processes of erosion and sea level change; the title phrase ‘next the sea’ here carries both spatial and temporal meaning. Through Eccles the paper investigates cultural-historical Anthropocene signatures over the past two centuries. Between 1862 and 1895 a church tower stood on Eccles beach; in preceding decades the tower was half-buried in sand dunes, but emerged after these were eroded by the sea. In 1895 the tower fell in a storm, although fragments remained intermittently visible over the following century, depending on the state of the beach. The paper takes Eccles tower as a focus for the exploration of themes indicative and/or anticipatory of the Anthropocene, including sea defence and geological speculation on land and sea levels, Eccles featuring in Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology. The tower became a visitor attraction, and discussions around the 1895 fall are examined, in relation to the spectacle of ruin, claims over the site and anxieties over defence. The periodic beach exposure of bones from the former churchyard prompted reflections on mortality, also present in literary engagements with Eccles by figures such as Henry Rider Haggard. The paper traces the persistence of fragmentary ruin memory through twentieth-century sea defence initiatives, and the ways in which late twentieth-century concerns for climate change and sea level rise generated a rediscovery of the site, yet also led to its effective disappearance as the beach built up following new sea defence construction. Eccles beach speaks to twenty-first-century preoccupations, aspects of its history over two hundred years making it emblematically Anthroposcenic.

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下一个海洋：埃克尔斯和人类景观

摘要 本文考虑了人类世，即通过英格兰诺福克东北海岸的埃克尔斯这一特定地点，景观成为人类世进程的象征。海岸已成为反映人类世的关键景观，尤其是通过侵蚀和海平面变化的过程；这里的标题短语'next the sea'具有空间和时间的意义。通过埃克尔斯，论文调查了过去两个世纪的文化历史人类世特征。1862 年至 1895 年间，埃克尔斯海滩上矗立着一座教堂塔楼；在过去的几十年里，这座塔半掩在沙丘中，但在这些沙丘被海水侵蚀后才浮出水面。1895 年，塔在一场风暴中倒塌，但在接下来的一个世纪里，根据海滩的状况，碎片仍然断断续续地可见。本文以埃克尔斯塔作为探索人类世指示性和/或预期性主题的重点，包括海洋防御和陆地和海平面的地质推测，埃克尔斯在查尔斯·莱尔的《地质学原理》中有所体现。这座塔成为了一个旅游景点，围绕着 1895 年秋天的讨论，关于废墟的奇观、对遗址的要求和对防御的焦虑进行了审查。来自前墓地的骨头的定期海滩暴露引发了对死亡率的反思，也出现在亨利赖德哈格德等人物与埃克尔斯的文学交往中。该论文通过 20 世纪的海上​​防御倡议追溯了碎片化废墟记忆的持续存在，以及 20 世纪后期对气候变化和海平面上升的担忧促使人们重新发现该遗址，但随着新的海防建设后海滩的建立，也导致其有效消失。埃克尔斯海滩讲述了 21 世纪的当务之急，其 200 多年历史的各个方面使其成为具有象征意义的人类景观。