INCIPIT GAIA THE GROTESQUE GARLANDED WITH SATELLITES: RE-IMAGINING THE ANTHROPOCENE AS A POST-PLANETARY AGE.
Over the last decades environmentally engaged literary critics and historians have begun to embrace a characterization of our current age as planetary. This essay presents a somewhat contrary view. It argues that to fully appreciate the gravity of our current situation we must also attend to what li...
| Published in: | Cosmos & History Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 131 - 150 |
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Ashton & Rafferty
2022
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