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Agenda are future oriented tools defining what to do and how to do it. In the Anthropocene, the future of agendas is ambiguous: while our room for manoeuvre shrinks, projections of futures scenarios are more nuanced than ever before in human history. To open up Anthropocene agendas and free them from presentism, novel ways of agenda making are needed that take the genuine temporalities the Anthropocene has disclosed, such as deep time, into account.
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Leggewie, C., Hanusch, F. (2023). Agenda. In: Wallenhorst, N., Wulf, C. (eds) Handbook of the Anthropocene. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25910-4_256
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