Twilight of the anthropocene idols
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 &quo...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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London :
Open Humanities Press
2016
2016. |
Series: | Critical climate change.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009428061006719 |
Summary: | 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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) Also available in print form |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781785420160 |