Art in the Anthropocene positions aesthetic practice inside the material and epistemic mutations of climate change rather than treating art as commentary upon them. The Anthropocene appears not as a stable geological label but as a contested condition involving extinction, colonial histories, industrial infrastructures, altered temporalities and nonhuman agencies. The volume’s strongest contribution is to show that representation itself must change when inherited human scales no longer contain the phenomena at stake. Geological time, atmospheric chemistry, microbial life and planetary violence demand new forms of address, authorship and distribution. The book operates through encounters: essays, conversations and projects bring artistic practice into contact with Earth sciences, political theory, anthropology and philosophy without subordinating one field to another. Its methodology is editorially ecological, allowing heterogeneous forms to coexist as partial responses to a condition no single discipline can master. It bridges contemporary art, environmental humanities and epistemology by making aesthetics a site where the sensible organisation of planetary crisis can be contested, redistributed and materially reconfigured.
URBANISM MEETS ART