Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iv
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Preface ix
5. The Anthropocene: The Promise and Pitfalls of an Epochal Idea 1
6. Hubris
7. Anthropocene in a Jar 21
8. Concretes Speak: A Play in One Act 29
9. The Age of (a) Man 40
10. The Manual Pesticide Spray Pump 50
11. Hubris or Humility? Genealogies of the Anthropocene 59
12. Living and Dying
13. Huia Echoes 71
14. Snarge 81
15. Marine Animal Satellite Tags 89
16. Artificial Coral Reef 99
17. Cryogenic Freezer Box 108
18. Racism and the Anthropocene 116
19. Sabotaging the Anthropocene; or, In Praise of Mutiny 129
20. Laboring
21. On Possibility; or, The Monkey Wrench 143
22. The Germantown Calico Quilt 149
23. Anthropocene Aesthetics 159
24. Making
25. The Mirror— Testing the Counter- Anthropocene 169
26. Objects from Anna Schwartz’s Cabinet of Curiosities 182
27. Technofossil 191
28. Davies Creek Road 200
29. Anthropocene Cabinets of Curiosity: Objects of Strange Change 205
30. Contributors 219