ART interview by ALEPH MOLINARI and ANFISA VRUBEL artwork by MÏRKA LUGOSI american cultural critic t.j. demos’s essay against the anthropocene refutes the human-driven concept that dilutes our responsibility for the climate crisis. moving beyond disaster narratives, he proposes a radical reconceptualization of humanity’s relation to nature and other species. ANFISA VRUBEL — “Anthropocene” has become a fashionable term in recent years, but you are critical of it. How would you define this concept, and why are you against it? T.J. DEMOS — The Anthropocene has emerged in the last couple of decades as a geological term for the current post-Holocene epoch wherein humans are the dominant agents of geological transformations such as climate change, melting polar ice, land alterations, the changing chemical composition of rivers and oceans, and carbon pollution. It’s a problematic term that draws on the root word anthropos, for “human,” which is a generic descriptor that…