Against Polycrisis: A Theory of Toxic Presentism

We seem to be living in an unprecedented polycrisis. Multiple crises—mass forced migration, imminent climate doom, pandemics, and the rise of the far right, to name a few—intersect and amplify each other to a degree never seen before. But the fact that voices from journalists to academics can so easily label this moment unprecedented, argues anthropologist Daniel M. Knight, is a problem. With this book, Knight builds a case against the polycrisis framework as an example of toxic presentism,...