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This book defines for readers the ecological epoch known as the Anthropocene and brings together an interdisciplinary roster of researchers and scholars to address key imminent challenges to human society posed by climate crisis. The work also analyzes and provides a constructive vision on the relationship between social justice and the media.

Frontmatter --Table of Contents --Preface --1. Connecting Modernities --Part I Modernity as We Know It --2. Technology and the Texture of Modernity --3. Math and Modernity: Critical Reflections --4. Stranded Modernity --5. The (In)Compatibility of Islam with Modernity --6. The Missing Body --Part II Modernity under Fire --7. Criticism of "Colonial Modernity" through Kurdish Decolonial Approaches --8. Conflicting Modernities: Militarization and Islands --9. Project Modernity: From Anticolonialism to Decolonization --Part III In the Shadow of the Pandemic --10. Modernity and Decision-Making for Global Challenges --11. Public Health Confronts Modernity in the Shadow of the Pandemic --12. Human Identity and COVID-19 --Part IV Imagining New Global Frameworks --13. Environmentalism: A Challenge to Modernity --14. The Cognitive Immune System --15. Representative Democracy as Kitsch, and Artificial Intelligence's Promise of Emancipation --16. Subjectivation, Modernity, and Hypermodernity --17. Toward a New Global? --Index