As a meme, «Anthropocene» has as
yet little traction in scientific circles beyond geology and environmental science, let alone the wider culture: A Google check on «anthropocene» shows 78,700 references (mainly in geoscience), while by contrast «placebo», a once - esoteric medical term now well - established as a meme, has more than 18 million (and even the freshly coined «vuvuzela» has 3,650,000).
Nothing new at the P - I this week from me, but I tried to put some order to my ruminations on Revolutionary Road and The Reader, two of the most prominent Oscar hopefuls rolled out in what is traditionally the awards season run - up,
yet have found
little critical
traction this season.