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


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