Anthropocene ordinary: Emergent worlds with/in imaginaries of anthropogenic planetary crisis

This paper proposes the concept of Anthropocene ordinary to direct attention to the ways in which the polysemic idea of the Anthropocene coalesces with/in affective experiences, emergent practices and ways of relating within ordinary life. It reviews research on lived experiences, affective resonances and encounters shaped by the Anthropocene idea as well as arguments that the Anthropocene idea perniciously limits what might emerge from the worlds it describes. The paper then explores how scenes of Anthropocene ordinariness open multiple possibilities for emergence with a range of normative valences and scales, attending particularly to the relationship between emergence and the ordinary.