Abstract

The extended Experience. Reflections on the Anthropocene The debate on the so-called Anthropocene represents the emergence of a problematization that calls into question the whole system of modernity, which is to be understood as a combination of reflective rationality and a capitalist mode of production. The essay intends to analyze the contradictions that arise from the “discovery” of the Anthropocene: that between anthropocentrism and post-anthropocentrism, and that between origin and outcome of modernity. If Latour's studies are important to understand the epistemological status of unfinished modernity, we must go to the material origin of the problem and understand the implications of the capitalist and modern world-ecology. Once the places of the emergency of the problematization have been identified, it is possible to think about an intervention in reality that has at its center the dynamics of the conflict and the determination of an extended experience.