The following inquiry offers an alternative term for the epoch we currently find ourselves in. Rather than living in the age of the Anthropocene, a contested term in itself, the age of the Anthropoiescene is proposed instead. The Anthropoiescene positions human relationships and responsibilities within an entangled existence of world-making and -unmaking, emphasizing the vital importance of poiesis—a process of creation, consciously evoked, bringing something into being that did not exist before. A becoming-with. A process that is co-temporal and collaborative, both inviting and demanding interconnections, imaginings, and collaborative entanglements across a multitude of disciplines.
Zara Fraillon (Tue,) studied this question.