Hark! Humanfolk! Come and see this otherworldly performance – prose poem, animations, space, ecology, aliens, the future of the Earth... The Onomatophore of the Anthropocene: Commission on Planetary Ages Decision CC87966424/49 Bronislaw Szerszynski (Lancaster University) Thursday 27 November, 6.00-7.00 pm Martin Hall, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LU All welcome. Earth scientists have proposed that the Earth may be entering a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, in which the human species is the main geological force. In this performance for voice and animated graphics we will hear the declaration of an official decision from an imagined body which has the legal power to determine the names of the ages of all planetary bodies or worlds across the galaxy. The decision considers the claim from Homo sapiens that the new geological age of the Earth should be named after their species. It places this claim in the context of what is known about the evolution of worlds and what it means to be decreed the onomatophore or name-bearer of a planetary age, and concludes with a dramatic rewriting of the future evolution of the Earth.
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