Break Up the Anthropocene

Mentz, Steve

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“…Keller's terminology -and the work of philosopher Donna Haraway (2016) and literary critics Elizabeth DeLoughrey (2019) and Steve Mentz (2019), among others -inform my approach to climate fiction in this chapter. I embrace the sense of extreme urgency that typically characterizes debates about climate change and climate science, but question the teleological structures of thought that have shaped many contemporary accounts of the 'Age of Man'.…”

Section: A New Cultural Dominantmentioning

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“…Within the context of the struggle most postcolonial nations and communities have in asserting economic autonomy but also preserving the lands of their ancestors, the Anthropocene will therefore need to be reframed and re-situated to consider the toxic after-effects of a colonial plantation system, which Shanthini Pillai ( 2004) refers to as a plantocracy. Mentz (2019) writes that the dating of the Anthropocene is essentially manufactured and in fact nostalgic. He espouses a more pluralistic look at it, which is in tandem with what Moore does with the Capitolocene.…”

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Plantationocene Systems and Communal Disruptions in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy: An Ecogothic Perspective

Satkunananthan

2022

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N.K. Jemisin's critically acclaimed Broken Earth trilogy examines life in a post-apocalyptic alternate universe after a planet is cracked, bleeding and about to die. The trilogy does not seek to redeem the earth or a fractured environment. Rather, the novels demonstrate the ways in which characters develop, dissolve and mutually destroy or support each other. Jemisin's conception of nature is unique and almost antithetical to human survival, but the roots of this destruction go deep. The fractured economies and governments within this post-apocalyptic universe paint a haunting picture of a world whose geopolitics are affected by the nature it has despoiled and disintegrated. The trilogy is a fitting fable for a planet in which climate change has affected endangered species, ecosystems and world economics. I apply a postcolonial ecoGothic lens to the analysis of the Broken Earth trilogy. This postcolonial ecoGothic approach will be married to a consideration of Jason C Moore's unveiling of the Capitolocene through the lens of Donna Haraway's and Anna Tsing's positioning of a Plantationocene to look at patterns of power and domination. This paper is particularly concerned with the ways in which these patterns are related to the condition of societies living under siege and the ways in which these societies mimic patterns of colonial domination. The proposed outcome of this analysis will be to strip the layers of the Broken Earth trilogy to unearth what the narrative reveals about the environmental travails and geopolitical dissolutions that haunt our existences in what has been dubbed the Anthropocene.

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“…While “the ship” has emerged as a compelling metaphor for making sense of and responding to catastrophes in the Anthropocene (see, e.g. Armeiro, 2018; Mentz, 2015, 2019; Shotwell, 2016: 129–130), the frequent sentiment of this message is that “we are all in the same boat,” whether we call it Spaceship Earth or the Ark. 1 Such a message assumes that collective human action is needed and will materialize in the face of shared threats.…”

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A convergence of crises: COVID-19, climate change and bunkerization

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Brisman

2022

Crime, Media, Culture

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Bunkerization, a term often associated with military fortifications on 20th-century battlefields or the fallout shelters of the Cold War, can now refer to the building, buying and selling of artificial environments designed to provide protective and defensive responses to the ecological, military, and political threats of the Anthropocene. As places of elite retreat, however, these are not spartan spaces. This article documents how—for some—forms of bunkerization have emerged as privileged reactions or responses to contemporary environmental crises, such as climate change, by considering the case of last-chance tourism and luxury cruising. In 2020, both climate change and COVID-19 became intertwined as global crises emerging from humans’ troubling relationships with nature. To examine bunkerization as an individualistic reaction to these converging crises, we first outline the challenges presented by COVID-19 and its connections with human exploitation of animals and the environment. We then turn to the particular uses of the environment—in this case, the oceans—as locations of leisure and retreat, and offer an analysis of the image, operations and impact of the luxury cruise industry. In light of our current path of crisis accumulation, we conclude with an urgent call to adopt a more holistic view of planetary public health—one that includes not only humans but also other species and the natural environment.

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