Essays about: "Anthropocene fiction"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 10 essays containing the words Anthropocene fiction.

  1. 6. Stuck in the Truck: Oil Dependency, Acceleration, and the Nature of Catastrophe : An Ecocritical Reading of The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Sonya Helgesson Ralevic; [2020]
    Keywords : The Wages of Fear; Le Salaire de la Peur; Henri-Georges Clouzot; ecocriticism; petro-fiction; Anthropocene; oil film; film noir; ethnographic film; spectacle;

    Abstract : As a medium of modernity, film has always been entwined with the energy regime sustaining it. This thesis is interested in the interrelation between film and oil, and approached as a piece of petro-fiction, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s film The Wages of Fear (1953) is subject to a close, ecocritical analysis. READ MORE

  3. 7. World Automatic (((((The Really Real Project)))))

    University essay from Konstfack/Grafisk design & illustration

    Author : Jonna Mayer; [2019]
    Keywords : work; post-work; creativity; automation; commodification; de-commodification; marxism; UBI; universal basic income; communism; posthumanism; fiction; artefacts; future; history; ai; artificial intelligence; graphic design; design; self-design; CRISPR-cas9; unemployment; capitalism; postcapitalism; anthropocene;

    Abstract : In a prospective post-work society, a select group of citizens participate in a cross-temporal project. As we follow along their journeys, questions arise. READ MORE

  4. 8. Sublime Extinctions in Anthropocene Fiction: Literary representations of geologic force in works by Ballard, McCarthy and Watkins

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Samuel Teeland; [2018]
    Keywords : Anthropocene; Extinction; Sublime; J.G. Ballard; Cormac McCarthy; Claire Vaye Watkins; Languages and Literatures; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This essay examines representations of extinction in a selection of Anthropocene fiction. The Anthropocene is a potential new geological epoch, in which the human species capacity for massive ecological transformation is rivalling that of geologic processes. READ MORE

  5. 9. Storytelling in the Anthropocene: A critical consideration of the Anthropocene using socio-ecological theory and science fiction to scrutinise current and envision future stories of social justice and ecological sustainability

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Petra Van Der Kooij; [2016]
    Keywords : Anthropocene; social justice; ecological sustainability; socio-ecological theory; eco-Marxism; posthumanism; science fiction; utopia; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : We now have entered the Anthropocene. Humanity is the new geological force drastically changing the systems of the Earth. At least this is the story told by natural scientists. Social scientists are critical of this ‘natural’ narrative as it cannot deal with the social dimension of geological changes. READ MORE

  6. 10. Blind Injustice : J. M. Coetzee and the Misapprehension of the Ecological Object

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Tom Bradstreet; [2016]
    Keywords : J. M. Coetzee; Life Times of Michael K; ecocriticism; object-oriented ontology; postcolonial theory;

    Abstract : This thesis attempts to develop a concept of 'ecological misapprehension' by means of an object-oriented ecocritical analysis of several works by J. M. Coetzee. READ MORE