I wasn’t the first to come up with the term the Fafocene, but I am the first to make regular efforts to popularise it as a word for thinking about when we are.
Short version – while terms like ‘anthropocene’ hope to capture a geological era – in which human activity is a discernible factor on the planet’s systems (air, water, soil etc), other people protest that it flattens the politics (#NotAllHumans) and propose Plantationocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene etc.
Me, I go with Fuck Around, Find Out (FAFO) cene.
I have written about it here – Kayfabe in the Fafocene– and here – Affect and the Fafocene: kayfabe, hypernormalisation and Leonard Cohen.
As promised/threatened, I am going to start doing blog posts, on this site but occasionally also over on All Our Yesterdays about this stuff.
| Date | Title |
| Wednesday June 17, 2026 | FD #01 – have we been here before? |
| Thursday June 18, 2026 | FD #02 – at least nuclear war would have been quick |
| Friday June 19, 2026 | FD #03 – The King over the Water gets on a Ro-Ro… (Starmer, Burnham etc) |
| Saturday June 20, 2026 | FD#04: “Team Algae”? Srsly? The satire Gods are just phoning it in now, aren’t They? |
| Sunday June 21, 2026 | FD #05: Pragmatic frogs and boiling water |
| Monday June 22, 2026 | FD #06: Let me Paint you a picture |
| Tuesday June 23, 2026 | FD #07: Tattoos, Marge Piercy and burnout |
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