Anthropocene Calling (AAA series Vol. 3)
- Yasuko Nakamura, Giuseppe Patella, Hironari Takeda eds. / 2026.3
- JPY4,000 / A5 size, softcover, 408pages
- bookdesign: Tamon Yahagi
. . . The Anthropocene implies a radical spatio-temporal rethinking of the planet. The concept of a clash of scales poses fundamental challenges to the way in which the planet is perceived, investigated, and represented. From this viewpoint, the interdisciplinarity of this book, that collects the results of two international conferences held in Italy in 2024–2025, can really help to frame some of the problems immediately arise in relation to Anthropocene, such as: how to define the place of humans in natural world? What is the meaning of nature? How we are to be regarded in relation to the other natural beings? How to respond to problems facing us, now and in the future, such as environmental degradation, climate changes, overpopulation and overconsumption, destruction of natural resources, coexistence among different natural beings and di erent cultures? How can technology, humanities and the arts address this situation?
from ‘The Many Faces of the Anthropocene. Introduction’ by Giuseppe Patella
（ISBN 9784868161356）
Table of contents
Giuseppe Patella, The Many Faces of the Anthropocene. Introduction
Part 1 – The Anthropocene between Philosophy, Ecology, Aesthetics
1 Giuseppe Patella, What’s Wrong with the Anthropocene? Critique of an Ideology
2 Federico Luisetti, A Pluriversal World: Exiting the Anthropocene
3 Atsushi Okada, Ecology as Aesthetics: Alexander von Humboldt, Ernst Haeckel, and Elisée Reclus
4 Francesco Campagnola, Anthropocene as Historic-Ontological Awareness
5 Nozomu Ninomiya, Adorning the Appearance: Exploring the Intellectual History of Animal Aesthetics
6 Paolo Heritier, The Chorological Space of Being Human between East and West
Part 2 – Technology in the Age of the Anthropocene: Human, Machine, and Habitus
7 Roberto Terrosi, The Technocene: For a New Phenomenology of Spirit
8 Hideki Ohira, The Neuro-Habitus: Brain-Body Mechanisms Generating, Maintaining, and Changing Human Mind
9 Mario Verdicchio, Anthropocene: The Other Sociotechnical Blindness
10 Yasuko Nakamura/Wanwan Zheng, To Shape Oneself, to Reconfigure the Word: Exercises in Anthropotechnics and the Potentiality of Thinking
11 Yu Izumi, Abusive Language in the Age of AI: Insights from the Japanese Linguistic and Cultural Context
12 Tetsuya Yamamoto, Digital Mental Health Care in the Anthropocene: Enhancing Life with AI and ICT
Part 3 – The Anthropocene and the Arts
13 Hironari Takeda, Naoya Hatakeyama and Images of the Anthropocene: Catastrophe, Sublime, and Ruins
14 Vincenzo Cuomo, The Anthropocene from a Parasitic Perspective. The Long End of Neolithic Civilization and the Role of Artistic Experimentation
15 Ayako Ikeno, How to Imagine the Atmosphere: Mikami Seiko’s sculptures in the Age of Anthropocene
16 Asako Fukuda, “Immunity” and Zombies
Hironari Takeda, Afterword: For Further Collaboration
Editors
YASUKO NAKAMURA
Professor of German Literature and Intellectual History and Director of Humanity Center for Anthropocenic Actors and Agency at the Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University.
GIUSEPPE PATELLA
Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and Director of IRCA̶International Research Center for Aesthetics and Art Theory.
HIRONARI TAKEDA
Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at Kyoto University.