Anthropocene and the Undead (eBook)

Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination

Simon Bacon (Herausgeber)

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2022
276 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (USA) (Verlag)
9781978788374 (ISBN)

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The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end of the world. In fact, as described here, much of how we understand the anthropocene both conceptually and in practice involves undead entities from the past that will not die, undead traumas that rise up and consume the world, and undead temporalities that can never end. Fifteen original essays by cultural and anthropological experts such as Kyle William Bishop, Nils Bubandt, Johan Hoglund, and Steffen Hantke, among others, study the nature of humanity's ongoing complicated relationship to the environment via the concept of the undead. In doing so, The Anthropocene and the Undead sheds invaluable light on adjacent concepts such as the Capitalocene, Necrocene, Disanthropocene, Post-anthropocene, and the Symbiocene to trace real and imagined trajectories of our more-than-human selves into undead and undying futures.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.3.2022
• Co-Autor: Kyle William Bishop, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., Sarah Lewison, Lars Schmeink, Conrad Scott, Gheorghe Williams, Andrew J. Wilson, Kristopher Woofter, Mikaela Bobiy, Aaron Bradshaw, Nils Bubandt, Daisy Butcher, Elana Gomel, Rebecca Stone Gordon, Steffen Hantke, Johan Hoglund
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-13: 9781978788374 / 9781978788374