Cinematic Incursions into the Anthropocene: Roland Emmerich, Dystopia and Ontology

Abstract

The Anthropocene has disrupted modern boundaries between human and non-human agency. While humans become an agent of geohistory (Latour, 2014), planetary epiphenomena – climate change, extreme weather events, the sixth mass extinction – indicate that modern extractivism is taking a toll on Earth System processes, suggesting that, soon, the planet may no longer be “a safe operating space for Humanity” (Rockstrom et al, 2009).