In this opening volume to a trilogy of works critiquing and undermining our approach to our environment, Ariel Salleh argues we need a new word for the contemporary age: the Androscene. This concept establishes patriarchal capitalist coloniality as the foundational issue destroying both the planet and the lives and exist with it. The Androscene is the deepest most intractable fracture of humans from the wider world of natural relations. Salleh peels away the most recent and overt political layers back to their historical source and the healing rediscovery of matristic values.

This is a truly intersectional approach to the ecological crisis - one that doesn't prioritise one species over another (e.g. humans over animals) a particular gender over another (the problem of systematic patriarchy) one race or nation over each other or accept the uneven spread of wealth and resources throughout the globe. Salleh takes as her premise that if all these issues intersect, we need to decolonialise the language and thinking we use to dismantle these overlapping worlds of inequality.