Time After the Hero—Or, in Proposing the Age of the Anthropoiescene

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.