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Knowledge in and of the Anthropocene
Abstract:
What kind of sign is a marker? This question is at the heart of the multi-disciplinary discussions that animate the conversations of these dossiers, and is fundamentally a question of semiotics: the study of signs. In this reflection, science historian Jürgen Renn and literary scholar Nathaniel LaCelle-Peterson sketch out how the dual role of markers as traces in the strata and symptoms of the dangerous destabilization of the Earth System turns them into a crucial interface between natural archives and human societies.