Since the coinage of the term Anthropocene, scholarly debates have been dominated by critics of the reference to anthropos, the abstract undifferentiated global subject of the new geological epoch. Many humanities scholars objected that this aggregated whole obfuscates inequalities and responsibilities. While the prefix ‘Anthropos’ has been the target of sharp criticisms, the suffix ‘cene’ remained unchallenged. This paper questions the relevance of the chronological timeline divided up into a sequence of epochs differentiated in terms of scales. I argue that the discourse about the ‘great acceleration’ pointing to a clash of tempos relies on the chronological framework. The single uniform timeline covering all events from the origin of the universe to the birth of individual people tends to conceal the variety of timelines whose interplay determines the climate. I suggest that the current ecological crisis calls for a radical revision of our notion of time which is based on the western metaphysics where human subjects reign supreme over nature and the earth. This crisis invites us to adopt a polychronic view, assuming a variety of heterogeneous temporal trajectories. The first section presents the thesis of ‘the great acceleration’ as a grand narrative based on on the western modern framework. The second section disentangles the prerequisites of the construction of this universal timeline: the assumption of a view from nowhere that makes all times commensurable. In the third section I venture the metaphor of timescape as an alternative to the usual timescales of the universal chronology. This notion seems more appropriate to understand the ecological crisis as resulting from conflicting temporalities. The final section tests the timescaping approach on the cases of two technologies that are considered as candidate markers of the onset of the Anthropocene: nuclear technology and plastics.

自人类世一词诞生以来，学术界的辩论一直被对人类的提法的批评者所支配。，是新的地质时代未抽象的全局主题。许多人文学者均反对，认为这些整体掩盖了不平等和责任。虽然前缀“ Anthropos”一直是尖锐批评的对象，但后缀“ cene”仍然没有受到挑战。本文质疑按时间顺序划分的时间序列的相关性，这些时间序列按比例尺分为不同的时期。我认为关于“巨大加速度”的论述指向速度的冲突取决于时间顺序框架。统一的时间线涵盖了从宇宙起源到个人诞生的所有事件，往往会掩盖各种时间线，它们之间的相互作用决定了气候。我建议，当前的生态危机要求对我们的时间观念进行彻底的修改，这种时间观念是基于西方形而上学的，在这个形而上学中，人类主体统治着自然和地球。这场危机邀请我们采取多时态观点，假设存在各种不同的时间轨迹。第一部分以西方现代框架为基础，提出“伟大的加速”作为宏大叙事的理论。第二部分解开了构建通用时间轴的前提条件：从无处可去的观点出发，使所有时间都可以相称。在第三部分中，我尝试用时空的隐喻代替通用年表中通常的时标。该概念似乎更适合理解由时间冲突造成的生态危机。