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The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe in Contemporary Culture: Climate Catastrophe Culture
Mark Bould
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Description for The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe in Contemporary Culture: Climate Catastrophe Culture
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Verso
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781839760471
SKU
V9781839760471
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About Mark Bould
Mark Bould is a Reader in Film and Literature at UWE Bristol. He is the author of four books of film theory, and has been awarded both the Science Fiction Research Association's Pilgrim Lifetime Achievement Award for Critical Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2016) and the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Distinguished Scholarship ... Read more
Reviews for The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe in Contemporary Culture: Climate Catastrophe Culture
A scintillating work of boisterous melancholy.
China Miéville, author of October Mark Bould's provocation kicks off a thrill-ride roller coaster of ideas, speeding us from one savvy insight to another about culture in the era of climate change. An essential read for anyone wanting to better understand what we know and don't know about what comes next.
Imre ... Read more
China Miéville, author of October Mark Bould's provocation kicks off a thrill-ride roller coaster of ideas, speeding us from one savvy insight to another about culture in the era of climate change. An essential read for anyone wanting to better understand what we know and don't know about what comes next.
Imre ... Read more