Post-Pandoran hope for moving wisely beyond the neo-Promethean Anthropocene Wendelin Küpers  Published as Küpers, W. (2019)”Post-Pandoran hope for moving wisely beyond the neo-Promethean Anthropocene, in Daniel Ericsson & Monika Kostera (eds) Organizing goodness and hope, (pp. 72-84), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. INTRODUCTION “What hope can we have for Planet Earth for 2035 and beyond?” This chapter proposes that we can hope, still, again and anew, by learning from the mythical stories of Prometheus and Pandora’s box. In particular, there is hope when we learn to become wiser, and move wisely beyond the so-called Anthropocene. The Anthropocene marks a specific age (from Greek anthropo- meaning ‘human’ and -cene meaning ‘new’ or ‘age’). Historically, this epoch, which is still under way, has been emerging over a longer period of time. It started when some of Earth’s creatures (humans) began taming nature, an activity that intensified from the Industrial Revolution up to our contemporary late modern and capitalist society. Human activities and impacts are now seen as permanent, even on a geological time-scale (Steffen et al., 2011a, 2011b). The notion of the popularized term Anthropocene implies an ‘AnthropoScene’ that is the staging of a set of narratives with profound implications, including the performativity of depoliticizing stories that render an obscuring, silencing and off-staging ‘Anthropo-obScene’ (Swyngedouw and Ernstson, 2018). These scenes, like any re-presentation of environmental or organizational histories, involve a storyline with a theatrical setting that features a cast of key actors, agents, properties, and relations, and inevitably exclude other potential performers and relations (Cronon, 1992). We are currently witnessing a new transformation and reconfiguration of figures, characters, and their roles in performing a drama that makes all the world a stage sharing one interwoven destiny in a (geo-)bio-social becoming (Ingold, 2013). Is there hope that the historical trajectory of the materio-eco-socio-cultural nexus can be transformed? Such transformation is even more challenging, as this nexus is characterized at present by the fateful dominance of capitalist interests and rationales, and technocratic power.