This invaluable and timely study offers a rigorous yet accessible, transdisciplinary engagement with Michel Serres, illuminating his relevance for the Anthropocene-Capitalocene. By bridging philosophy and the social sciences, Brown delivers an innovative, compelling analysis that will reshape contemporary debates and inspire scholars across multiple fields.

Keith Moser, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Mississippi State University, USA

Steve Brown, known as the leading figure in social theory inspired by Michel Serres, now explicates this unconventional philosopher's implication for social theory facing the changing world of the Anthropocene. While the Anthropocene has made evidently visible the violent ties between our life and the changing Earth System and decaying biosphere, Brown elucidates how Serres's dark social theory sheds light on our non-innocent way to live (and die) together with human and nonhuman others.

Atsuro Morita, Professor of Science, Technology and Culture, Osaka University, Japan

Brown offers a compelling, inventive and highly perceptive reading of Michel Serres for the social sciences. This will be a key text for anyone interested in understanding questions of the social in new ways and conceptualizing how we might live together.

Tim Barker, Professor of Media Technology and Aesthetics, University of Glasgow, UK