The anthropocene and rudolf bahro’s megamachine: A preliminary exploration of some key relationships between marcuse’s concept of technology as ideology and bahro’s discourse on the decomposition of late industrial societies

The aim of this text is to propose that the naming of the current geological period of the planet as “The Anthropocene,” and the international recognition and responses associated with that naming, may be creating political spaces at both planetary and local levels, within a late-industrial politics, that can be employed to help liberate humans throughout the world from new forms of oppression that have arisen with late-industrial, globalised economic production and consumption.