Time to face facts: something new is going on under the sun. The stately physical and chemical processes regulating the Earth, life's evolutionary trajectory, soil composition, water composition ‒ all these now bears traces of human activity. What's new about our current environmental crisis is that we humans aren't the only players with the power fo influence history anymore. The consequences of global production menace our lives and social structures, forcing us to rethink our relationship to knowledge, politics, and nature.