Spectrality and Survivance

Living the Anthropocene

AvMarija Grech

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-05-19
Mått:154 x 219 x 12 mm
Vikt:245 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
Antal sidor:156
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781786614162

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Mer om författaren

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.

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Combining materialist and Derridean approaches, Grech’s book is a tour de force when it comes to thinking the Anthropocene away from the standard debates and arguments that continue to perpetuate human exceptionalism. This exceptionalism is powerfully challenged when Grech argues that the constructed boundaries between the human and nonhuman, living and non-living, organic and inorganic, biological and discursive are entangled. In making this argument, Grech, at the same time, convincingly and carefully critiques the uninformed dismissals of Derrida’s work as simply a cultural system of linguistic and language references that exist outside the material domain. Accessible, clear and beautifully written this book is a must-read.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Spectral Present, Specular FuturesChapter 1: Preservation and Stasis: The Anthropocene Echo-ChamberChapter 2: Lithic Textuality: Reading and Writing Beyond Life and the HumanChapter 3: Entangled Survivance: Material Inscriptions of OthernessChapter 4: Re-Reading the Nuclear Trace: Diffractive Paradigms for the AnthropoceneConclusion: Rewriting the AnthroproceneBibliographyAbout the Author