HOMO COMPLEXUS : THE “HISTORICAL FUTURE” OF COMPLICITY

The moment in which we live proposes a staggering new challenge to past, present, and future understanding of our existence: climate change in general, and the Anthropocene in particular, requires a recalibration of all temporal relationships. In this article, I propose to identify the agent of change with current forms of complicity , or, as I call it in the title to this piece, the Homo complexus . A focus on complicity, I will argue, suggests that any future analysis of our society will recognize a short‐term investment in a threat hovering above different forms of existence, or a new “sense of an ending.”