The new issue #8 of INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, edited by Dorota Sajewska and Julia Schade, introduces the concept of the Anthropo(s)cene as a critical reconfiguration of dominant Anthropocene discourse, which often re-essentialises a universalised figure of anthropos, thereby obscuring historical and ongoing forms of colonial dispossession and environmental injustice. Drawing on feminist, decolonial, and new materialist perspectives, the issue proposes a shift from subject-centred agency to relational, planetary configurations of action. By focusing on contemporary performative practices, the authors frame the Anthropo(s)cene as a critical space for ontological openness, enabling alternative understandings of humanity beyond universalist and anthropocentric paradigms.

Editorial #8, 2025. Transforming the Anthropo(s)cene
Dorota Sajewska, Julia Schade

Until We Are Worth More Than Gold
Selma Selman

After the “Blue Marble”: A Trans-scalar Scene of the Earth as Seen from the Cosmos
MaƗgorzata Sugiera

Spoiling the Anthropo(s)cene. Between Rewilding and Grounding
Mateusz Chaberski

Feral Violence in “Acid Forest”: The “Anthropo(s)cene” and its Media
Mateusz Borowski

Wild Scene: Andris Eglītis’ “Savvaļa” as an Experience of the Non-representational
Dorota Sosnowska

Scene of Contamination. Pasolini’s “Appunti per un’Orestiade africana”
Fabienne Liptay

The Nambikwara Case
Jörn Etzold

Ancestrality as an Answer to the Anthropo(s)cene? The Promises of Indigenous Epistemologies (in the Arts and Beyond)
Leon Gabriel

“Don’t extract it, don’t consume it”. Decolonial Ecologies and Liquid Dramaturgies
Julia Schade

Dancing with the Shaker in the Hand. Cosmopolitical Performances for a Burning Planet
Amanda Piña

The Garden as Scene of the Anthropocene: Heterotopia, Queer Ecologies, and Green Archives
Friederike Nastold

View issue: https://insert.art/ausgaben/transforming-the-anthroposcene/

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