The AiNA reading group meets every two months online, for a 1 hour discussion of a text that help us think about the complexities of living in the nuclear age. We read fiction, non-fiction, poetry and more. Please join us!
How to book your place
Please join us by booking at Eventbrite
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About the book:
"The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene the term given to this geological epoch in which humans, anthropos, are wreaking havoc on the earth is to be found bubbling away everywhere in contemporary cultural production. Typically, discussions of how culture registers, figures and mediates climate change focus on climate fiction or cli-fi, but The Anthropocene Unconscious is more interested in how the Anthropocene and especially anthropogenic climate destabilisation manifests in texts that are not overtly about climate change that is, unconsciously. The Anthropocene, Mark Bould argues, constitutes the unconscious of the art and literature of our time.
Tracing the outlines of the Anthropocene unconscious in a range of film, television and literature across a range of genres and with utter disregard for high-low culture distinctions this playful and riveting book draws out some of the things that are repressed and obscured by the term the Anthropocene, including capital, class, imperialism, inequality, alienation, violence, commodification, patriarchy and racial formations. The Anthropocene Unconscious is about a kind of rewriting. It asks: what happens when we stop assuming that the text is not about the anthropogenic biosphere crises engulfing us? What if all the stories we tell are stories about the Anthropocene? About climate change?"
