The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an
increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more
closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end of the
world. In fact, as described here, much of how we understand the
anthropocene both conceptually and in practice involves undead
entities from the past that will not die, undead traumas that rise up
and consume the world, and undead temporalities that can never end.
Fifteen original essays by cultural and anthropological experts such
as Kyle William Bishop, Nils Bubandt, Johan Höglund, and Steffen
Hantke, among others, study the nature of humanity’s ongoing
complicated relationship to the environment via the concept of the
undead. In doing so, The Anthropocene and the Undead sheds invaluable
light on adjacent concepts such as the Capitalocene, Necrocene,
Disanthropocene, Post-anthropocene, and the Symbiocene to trace real
and imagined trajectories of our more-than-human selves into undead
and undying futures.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781793625830
Publisert
2022
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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