THE ANTHROPOCENE UNCONSCIOUS

The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene th e term given to this geological epoch in which humans, anthropos, are wreaking havoc on the earth is to be found bubbling away every where in contemporary cultural production. Typically, discussions of how culture registers, figures and mediates climate change focu s on climate fiction or cli-fi, but The Anthropocene Unconscious is more interested in how the Anthropocene and especially anthropog enic cli...[Read more]