Thursday 17 August 2017

Commentary on the novel and anthropocene

McKenzie Wark
On the Obsolescence of the Bourgeois Novel in the Anthropocene
Verso Books Blog

on Amitav Ghosh's lectures 'the great derangement'
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (University of Chicago Press, 2016)

move from proletarian to individual (interior) novel which is proposed as an obsolete genre for current day where the network of relationships between human, nonhuman and inhuman (technology and labour) should be part of the cultural workers' consideration and are made urgent by climate change and the acknowledgement of this period of the anthropocene...
something along these lines
Refs to other writers and articles with links are included in the blogpost


Wednesday 2 August 2017

Hidden in plain view | British war on Tasmania

Better information on the colonial wars in Tasmania is waiting to be found, and historian Nick Brodie has done the graft and produced the analysis from documents and records held in the national repositories.
Brodie’s advice: look beyond the regular sources, find the bigger picture and the context that the records are produced in.
Think about what the records were created for, how they were used during and after creation, how they were archived, how complete they appear, and only then worry about relating the stories they might contain. 

Interview with Nick Brodie on his process for new book The Vandemonian War: the Secret History of Tasmania's Colonisation

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