Review of Radhika Subramaniam's "Footprint: Four Itineraries" — Challenging the Anthropocene's Dominant Metaphor

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A review of Radhika Subramaniam's book "Footprint: Four Itineraries," which critically examines the "footprint" metaphor used to describe humanity's impact on the Earth in the Anthropocene era. The article uses the controversial Stratos Project AI data center in Utah as a launching point to explore how the footprint concept simplifies and potentially obscures the complex, entangled nature of human-environment relationships. Subramaniam's work offers four itineraries that rethink ecological impact beyond the dominant metaphor.

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