Broad Anthropocene: Humans and The World

The way we know and at the same time co-create the world is based on changing conceptual, perceptual and technological tools. The Anthropocene signifies not only a new environmental reality, but also its own specific reflection, which includes a new reflection on the relationships between human and non-human, local and global, science, art and politics, as well as between the natural and social sciences. The world around us has changed, and we see it differently and treat it differently. We become sensitive to other things. We examine these changes through empirical and theoretical study at the border of the fields of anthropology, history, philosophy and sociology of science, economics, cultural evolution and (new) phenomenology

Contributing to research in this field are: Anna Kvíčalová (coordinator), Michal Ajvaz, Jan Frei, Eliška Fulínová, Radan Haluzík, Marek Hudík, Zdeněk Konopásek, Jan Makovský, Karolína Pauknerová, Cyril Říha, Petr Tureček

Selection of representative publications:

Fulínová, E., Kvíčalová, A., eds. (2023): Antropocennosti: Průvodce světem antropocénu. Praha: Academia

Hudik, M. (2021): Push factors of endogenous institutional change. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 189, 504-514.

Konopásek, Z. (2022): Religion in action: How Marian apparitions may become true. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 12(1): 170-183

Kvíčalová, A. (2022): Purkyně’s Opistophone: the hearing ‘Deaf’, auditory attention and organic subjectivity in Prague psychophysical experiments, ca 1850s, Annals of Science

Tureček, P., Kozák, M., & Slavík, J. (2023): How subcultures emerge. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1-23.