While neither artists nor critics exactly choose their predisposition or disposition, and certainly don't choose the historical epoch in which they live, it becomes increasingly difficult to imagine an intellectual or cultural sphere in which the postmodern exceeds the metamodern in either mimetic rigor or emotional and moral amplitude.
Although this work was done in 1601, and although it still hangs in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome, it surely should be attributed to an epoch in which photography, and all it could capture of the moment, was beginning to seize the initiative from painting.
The Anthropocene is the new epoch in which humanity, through its technological prowess and population of 7 billion, has become the major driver of changes of the Earth's physical systems, including the climate, the carbon cycle, the water cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and biodiversity.
A team of astronomers announced yesterday that it had found what it called the cosmic renaissance, the epoch in which starlight first began streaming freely through the universe.
It ended a 20-year epoch in which arthropods were found to be the vectors of major diseases of animals and humans, including not only typhus but also African trypanosomiasis, American trypanosomiasis, dengue, filariasis, malaria, relapsing fever, Texas cattle fever, and yellow fever.
The Anthropocene is the proposed name for a new geological epoch in which humans have come to dominate the planet, reshaping and transforming it as a geological force.
In an epoch in which soft power and technology have combined to gradually reshape and repackage international human discourses, it is language capable of 'selling' to an increasingly aware world-population that will be triumphant in the 21st century.
We live in an epoch in which the battle for the complex and the resistant seems ("seems" is the operative word, as it often is) to have been lost.
The Arab world and the Middle East are entering a new epoch in which no country is immune from change.
