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The Anthropocene and the Undead

2022-03-22 Social Science
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Release : 2022-03-22
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Book Synopsis The Anthropocene and the Undead by : Simon Bacon

Download or read book The Anthropocene and the Undead written by Simon Bacon. This book was released on 2022-03-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end of the world. In fact, as described here, much of how we understand the anthropocene both conceptually and in practice involves undead entities from the past that will not die, undead traumas that rise up and consume the world, and undead temporalities that can never end. Fifteen original essays by cultural and anthropological experts such as Kyle William Bishop, Nils Bubandt, Johan Höglund, and Steffen Hantke, among others, study the nature of humanity’s ongoing complicated relationship to the environment via the concept of the undead. In doing so, The Anthropocene and the Undead sheds invaluable light on adjacent concepts such as the Capitalocene, Necrocene, Disanthropocene, Post-anthropocene, and the Symbiocene to trace real and imagined trajectories of our more-than-human selves into undead and undying futures.

The Anthropocene Unconscious

2021-11-02 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2021-11-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Anthropocene Unconscious by : Mark Bould

Download or read book The Anthropocene Unconscious written by Mark Bould. This book was released on 2021-11-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ducks, Newburyport to zombie movies and the Fast and Furious franchise, how climate anxiety permeates our culture The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene - the term given to this geological epoch in which humans, anthropos, are wreaking havoc on the earth - is to be found bubbling away everywhere in contemporary cultural production. Typically, discussions of how culture registers, figures and mediates climate change focus on 'climate fiction' or 'cli-fi', but The Anthropocene Unconscious is more interested in how the Anthropocene and especially anthropogenic climate destabilisation manifests in texts that are not overtly about climate change - that is, unconsciously. The Anthropocene, Mark Bould argues, constitutes the unconscious of 'the art and literature of our time'. Tracing the outlines of the Anthropocene unconscious in a range of film, television and literature - across a range of genres and with utter disregard for high-low culture distinctions - this playful and riveting book draws out some of the things that are repressed and obscured by the term 'the Anthropocene', including capital, class, imperialism, inequality, alienation, violence, commodification, patriarchy and racial formations. The Anthropocene Unconscious is about a kind of rewriting. It asks: what happens when we stop assuming that the text is not about the anthropogenic biosphere crises engulfing us? What if all the stories we tell are stories about the Anthropocene? About climate change?

Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene

2020-10-29 Nature
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Release : 2020-10-29
Genre : Nature
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Book Synopsis Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene by : Gaia Giuliani

Download or read book Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene written by Gaia Giuliani. This book was released on 2020-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique explores European and Western imaginaries of natural disaster, mass migration and terrorism through a postcolonial inquiry into modern conceptions of monstrosity and catastrophe. This book uses established icons of popular visual culture in sci-fi, doomsday and horror films and TV series, as well as in images reproduced by the news media to help trace the genealogy of modern fears to ontologies and logics of the Anthropocene. By logics of the Anthropocene, the book refers to a set of principles based on ontologies of exploitation, extermination and natural resource exhaustion processes determining who is worthy of benefiting from value extraction and being saved from the catastrophe and who is expendable. Fears for the loss of isolation from the unworthy and the expendable are investigated here as originating anxieties against migrants’ invasions, terrorist attacks and planetary catastrophes, in a thread that weaves together re-emerging ‘past nightmares’ and future visions. This book will be of great interest to students and academics of the Environmental Humanities, Human and Cultural Geography, Political Philosophy, Psychosocial Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Gender Studies and Postcolonial Feminist Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Cinema Studies and Visual Studies.

The Undead in the 21st Century

2022 Zombies in literature
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Release : 2022
Genre : Zombies in literature
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Book Synopsis The Undead in the 21st Century by : Simon Bacon

Download or read book The Undead in the 21st Century written by Simon Bacon. This book was released on 2022. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century is truly the age of the undead. This collection of 30 original essays explains how the fears and anxieties we have around contagion, the environment, geopolitics, ageing and more have given rise to the undead that plague our existence but also offer visions of our future.

We Can Come Back from this

2017 Human ecology
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Release : 2017
Genre : Human ecology
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Book Synopsis We Can Come Back from this by : Shavawn Marie Smith

Download or read book We Can Come Back from this written by Shavawn Marie Smith. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity has become increasingly aware of the Anthropocene and the impact of a worldview based on prioritizing human progress above all else. We've always used stories to navigate and negotiate the world in which we live. We have also continually developed new and different ways of telling those stories. I argue that the multiverse created by The Walking Dead is a platform upon which to assay a humanity post-anthropocentrism; the utopian energies (possibilities for improvement, positive potential) wrought from this study provide potentially powerful and actual physical material effects (actions that are cataloged and verifiable) in consumers of The Walking Dead. The multiverse (myriad adaptations that create a transmedia franchise) promotes a practice of accepting a more complex, more uncertain worldview, even before we begin to delve into the moral and ethical questions posed by the content of each iteration or adaptation. If the major premise of our worldview involves the centrality of humans and human progress, then the multiverse first upends this notion in order to dismantle infrastructure, political systems, civilization, and other things that reinforce human centrality. The method of that deconstruction is meaningful as well because, due to the overwhelming pervasiveness of humans, the structures of anthropocentrism are quickly dismantled by humans turning to "walkers." Our own prevalence comes back to bite us sometimes literally.

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