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The Crisis of Environmental Narrative in the Anthropocene
DeB. Richter addresses the problem with declensionist narratives of the environment, proposing the Georgic narrative as a valuable alternative.
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"Thinking About Inheritance Through the Figure of the Anthropocene, from the Antipodes and in the Presence of Others"
In this article for a special section on “Inheriting the Ecological Legacies of Settler Colonialism,” Lesley Instone and Affrica Taylor engage with the figure of the Anthropocene as the impetus for rethinking the messy environmental legacies of Australian settler colonialism.
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"Art, Trees, and the Enchantment of the Anthropocene: Caroline Wendling’s White Wood"
Considering Caroline Wendling’s living artwork White Wood (2014) in northeast Scotland, the author examines the relationship between deep time, ecology, and enchantment.
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"Beyond Whole Earth: Planetary Mediation and the Anthropocene”
In the special section “Imagining Anew: Challenges of Representing the Anthropocene,” Tobias Boes examines the hermeneutic and poetic operations by which we as human beings turn our very planet into a signifier for our collective existence as a species, a process he refers to as “planetary mediation.”
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"Hounded Out of Time: Black Shuck’s Lesson in the Anthropocene"
Jonathan Woolley borrows the folkloristic, East Anglia figure of Black Shuck, a devilish hound, and connects it to a narrative of the Anthropocene based on the notions of inescapable mortality, deep time, and responsibility.
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"(Com)Post-Capitalism Cultivating a More-than-Human Economy in the Appalachian Anthropocene"
Bradley M. Jones explores the cultivation of life in ruins, through a multi-species ecological ethic revealed in the life and labor of a permaculture farmer in the Appalachian foothills.
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"Science Fiction and the Risks of the Anthropocene: Anticipated Transformations in Dale Pendell's The Great Bay'"
In the special section “Imagining Anew: Challenges of Representing the Anthropocene,” Alexa Weik von Mossner analyzes Dale Pendell’s speculative novel The Great Bay.
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EcoCast: “‘Is This the Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy?’: Speculative Fiction in the Anthropocene”
In this episode of ASLE’s official podcast, Jemma Deer and Brandon Galm interviews Marc Dipaolo, author of Fire and Ice: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones.
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"Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin"
In this commentary piece, Donna Haraway calls for the stretching and recomposition of kin and kinship, as all earthlings are kin in the deepest sense. She feels it is past time to practice better care of kinds-as-assemblages (not species one at a time).
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