The term Anthropocene, according to an increasingnumber of scientists, describes the recent stadium of Earth History, having opened with theindustrialization. Terminologically and conceptually, it refers to the triggering of telluricprocesses such as anthropogenic climate warming, which solely derive from human activity,and should replace the current state of the Holocene. Exceeding his originative fields ofgeology and environmental sciences, the term currently presents itself as a concept with agrowing potential for boom. Demonstrating a growing lexematic relevance and a conceptualfertile ground for descriptive models of tilting or turning points, describing the current state ofhumanity as upheaval, the Anthropocene contains a potential for diagnosing and overcomingdisciplinary boundaries between sciences and humanities, exceeding not just the dimension ofclimate change but also other traditional political, social and fictional dimension of dystopianforecasts. Its fruitfulness has triggered extensive analyses of the conceptual implications ofthe anthropocentric idea by renowned institutional and staffing sizes of histories of arts andculture, philosophy and literary studies, sociology, economic and legal sciences. When itcomes to its ratification, the latter disciplines are even ahead of its original subjects, and itsphenomenology has recently been fortifying remarkably diversified interpretations andinterpretations of the Human Factor.Against this background, the thesis examines both the theoretical and fictional realms of theAnthropocene as human self-description. In doing so, it delivers two parts of an explanationwhy both hard sciences and humanities depend on fictional elements whenever making anattempt of self-description: The Anthropocene mixes historical regrets, guilt, as well asprojections, discussions, transfigurations and models for the future. Therefore, the literaryanalysis furthermore presents an outline of the poetic, narrative, typological and aestheticmeans of its imaginative con- and destruction, illustration, interpretation and analysis.Therefore, the discussion of the Anthropocene is put against the background of culturephilosophicaland historical traditions such as those of Adorno (1944; 1941; 1958 i.a.),Foucault (1969, 1976, 2004) and Benjamin (1969, 1974, i.a.). Special attention is paid to theconcept of the Posthuman (Braidotti 2013), Horn’s (2014) idea of future as catastrophe, thegeopolitics of literature (Werber 2014) and the approach of the post-souvereign narrative(Schaffrick et al 2015). In doing so, the thesis identifies locality as the main category ofhuman ;;roots” and the concept of agency.
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