Abstract
The lecture introduces the Anthropocene as an concept operable on three interconnected levels: ontological, epistemological and ethical or existential. On this basis, it then develops an experience of nature that is characteristic of the Anthropocene and which differs from older paradigmatic images of nature, typical of classical environmental narratives and often based on romantic images of "pristine wilderness".
It proposes to understand the so-called "new wilderness" as the Anthropocene paradigm of nature, representing the breaking of natural spontaneity into the purposive-rational structures characteristic of human settlements (cities).