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“Scale critique”: this term has recently been proposed by Derek Woods to name an emerging tendency within the environmental humanities. 1 Dipesh Chakrabarty, Mark McGurl, Ursula Heise, and others have found that attempting to engage environmental issues of a dauntingly global nature entails a reconsideration of the concept of scale and that this leads to a surprising reconceptualization of once seemingly familiar issues. 2 Thinkers have started to map out an intellectual practice in which we “need to think human agency over multiple and incommensurable scales at once.” 3 “Scale critique” would also include David Wood’s work to expand eco-phenomenology beyond the scales of normal human perception and intuition. 4 “Scale critique” is a response to one of the most challenging aspects in thinking the so-called Anthropocene: the way it highlights anew the question of the ontology of the human. The term …