Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols [electronic resource].

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Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols [electronic resource].

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Open Humanities Press 2016

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Following on from Theory and the Disappearing Future, Cohen, Colebrook and Miller turn their attention to the eco-critical and environmental humanities’ newest and most fashionable of concepts, the Anthropocene. The question that has escaped focus, as “tipping points” are acknowledged as passed, is how language, mnemo-technologies, and the epistemology of tropes appear to guide the accelerating ecocide, and how that implies a mutation within reading itself—from the era of extinction events. Only in this moment of seeming finality, the authors argue, does there arise an opportunity to be done with mourning and begin reading. Drawing freely on Paul de Man’s theory ...
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Climatic changes
Critical Theory
Philosophy

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Tom Cohen
Claire Colebrook
J. Hillis Miller

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