Marija Grech

Spectrality and Survivance (eBook, PDF)

Living the Anthropocene

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The notion of the Anthropocene is founded on the premise that traces of human activity on the earth will remain legible in the geological strata for millions of years to come, showing evidence of an anthropogenic 'signature' inscribed in the rock by the human species. Spectrality and Survivance shows how embedded in this understanding of the Anthropocene is a speculative and specular gesture that transforms the notion of the future into an anthropocentric reflection of the present, prohibiting any true engagement with the possibility of a non-anthropocentric and post-anthropocenic world. In this volume, Marija Grech develops an alternative conceptual paradigm from which to think the Anthropocene beyond any limited notion of human language, human thought, human systems of meaning, or even a human world. Grech considers how the geological trace of the Anthropocene might be said to 'survive' outside of the possibility of any human readership, and how the very survival of the human in and beyond the Anthropocene might necessitate such thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881863821
• Artikelnr.: 74398826

Autorenporträt

Marija Grech is a lecturer in English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Malta, and a visiting fellow with the School of Humanities & Languages at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Spectral Present, Specular Futures
Chapter 1: Preservation and Stasis: The Anthropocene Echo-Chamber
Chapter 2: Lithic Textuality: Reading and Writing Beyond Life and the Human
Chapter 3: Entangled Survivance: Material Inscriptions of Otherness
Chapter 4: Re-Reading the Nuclear Trace: Diffractive Paradigms for the
Anthropocene
Conclusion: Rewriting the Anthroprocene
Bibliography
About the Author