Modernize or Ecologize? Following the footsteps of Bruno Latour into the City of the Anthropocene

Abstract

Cities were main drivers in the geological shift from the Holocene to the Anthropocene through the ‘Great Acceleration’ beginning in the 1950s. Cities also should be main drivers for the remedy of anthropogenic disasters such as climate change, biodiversity decline etc. The Keynote speech will explicate the reasoning behind Bruno Latour’s option for an ecological and not a modernizing approach to such questions.