The Anthropocene has become an umbrella term for the disastrous transgression of ecological safety boundaries by human societies. The impact of this new reality is yet to be fully registered by political theorists. In an attempt to recalibrate the categories of political thought, this article brings Hannah Arendt’s framework of The Human Condition (labor, work, action) into the gravitational pull of the Anthropocene and current knowledge about the Earth System. It elaborates the historical emergence of our capacity to “act in the mode of laboring” during fossil-fueled capitalist modernity, a form of agency relating to our collectively organized laboring processes reminiscent of the capacity of modern sciences to “act into nature” discussed by Arendt. I argue that once read from an energy/ecology-centric perspective, The Human Condition can help us make sense of the Anthropocene predicament, and rethink the modes of collectively organizing the activities of labor, work, and action.

人类世已成为人类社会灾难性地越过生态安全界限的总称。政治理论家尚未充分认识到这一新现实的影响。为了重新调整政治思想的类别，本文引入了汉娜·阿伦特（Hannah Arendt）的《人类状况》框架（劳动，工作，行动）进入人类世的引力和关于地球系统的当前知识。它详细说明了在化石燃料的资本主义现代性过程中，我们“以劳动方式行事”的能力的历史性崛起。这种代理形式与我们的集体组织的劳动过程有关，让人联想到现代科学的能力，即由“自然”行事。阿伦特 我认为，一旦从以能源/生态学为中心的角度看，人类状况可以帮助我们理解人类世的困境，并重新考虑集体组织劳动，工作和行动活动的方式。