The anthropocene unconscious

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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?

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 november 2021

Aantal pagina's: 176

Hoofdauteur: Mark Bould

Hoofduitgeverij: Verso Books

Product breedte: 129 mm

Product hoogte: 17 mm

Product lengte: 198 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 198 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 29 mm

Verpakking lengte: 198 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 40 g

EAN: 9781839760471

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