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PARRA ALVARADO, Michell Giovanni. The Anthropocene in Dispute: The Realist Path towards New Tensions between Particulars and Universals during the Scientific Rejection of the ‘New Epoch’. En-clav. pen [online]. 2025, vol.19, n.37, pp.26-50.  Epub 18-Feb-2025. ISSN 2594-1100.  https://doi.org/10.46530/ecdp.v0i37.719.

In early March 2024, after more than a decade of scientific discussion, the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS) rejected the proposal to confirm the ‘Anthropocene’ as a new geologic epoch on Earth. Despite evidence from the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG), which proposed to locate the stratigraphic ‘golden spike’ in the sedimentations of Crawford Lake in Canada due to high recorded levels of radioactive plutonium isotopes, the scientists concluded that these were not a particular phenomenon sufficient to mark the general onset of a new post-Holocene epoch. In this context, the decision reflects tensions between ‘particulars and universals’ linked to three forms of vulnerabilities: planetary, anthropological and technological. This paper investigates the philosophical implications of these tensions and examines the ontological problematics arising from resolutions that attempt to reconcile the global and local planes. To this end, the ‘factuality principle’ of Meillassoux's speculative materialism is confronted with the anthropic principle of the Gaia hypothesis and James Lovelock's ‘Novacene cyborg’. Furthermore, the thesis of ‘ancestrality’ is analyzed not only as a realistic foundation for thinking a deep post-human geological time, but also as an argument for dismantling a hegemonic sense of technology and anthropology. Finally, it concludes on the vital importance of incorporating cosmotechnical and xenofeminist approaches to the humanities to build a new universality, opening paths to design a world of humans and non-humans.

Palabras llave : Anthropocene; Novacene; speculative realism; anthropic principle; cosmotechnics; xenofeminism.

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