Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols
Author | : Tom Cohen |
Publisher | : Open Humanities Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 1785420151 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781785420153 |
Rating | : 4/5 (153 Downloads) |
Download or read book Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols written by Tom Cohen and published by Open Humanities Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from Theory and the Disappearing Future, in Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols, Cohen, Colebrook and Miller turn their attention to the eco-critical and environmental humanities' newest and most fashionable of concepts, the Anthropocene. The question that has escaped focus, as "tipping points" are acknowledged as passed, is how language, mnemo-technologies, and the epistemology of tropes appear to guide the accelerating ecocide, and how that implies a mutation within reading itself-from the era of extinction events.