Twilight of the Anthropocene idols

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dc.contributor.authorCohen, Tom
dc.contributor.authorColebrook, Claire
dc.contributor.authorMiller Hillis, J.
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-20T15:46:25Z
dc.date.available2018-03-20T15:46:25Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractFollowing on from Theory and the Disappearing Future, 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.Only in this moment of seeming finality, the authors argue, does there arise an opportunity to be done with mourning and begin reading. Drawing freely on Paul de Man’s theory of reading, anthropomorphism and the sublime, Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols argues for a mode of critical activism liberated from all-too-human joys and anxieties regarding the future. It was quite a few decades ago (1983) that Jurgen Habermas declared that ‘master thinkers had fallen on hard times.’ His pronouncement of hard times was premature. For master thinkers it is the best of times. Not only is the world, supposedly, falling into a complete absence of care, thought and frugality, a few hyper-masters have emerged to tell us that these hard times should be the best of times. It is precisely because we face the end that we should embrace our power to geo-engineer, stage the revolution, return to profound thinking, reinvent the subject, and recognize ourselves fully as one global humanity. Enter anthropos.en
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dc.identifier.citationCohen, T., Colebrook, C. and Miller Hillis, J. (2016). Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols. London: Open Humanities Press. DOI: 10.26530/oapen_588463en
dc.identifier.doi10.26530/oapen_588463
dc.identifier.endpage220
dc.identifier.isbn9781785420153
dc.identifier.isbn9781785420160
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5659
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherOpen Humanities Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCritical Climate Change
dc.relation.urihttps://openhumanitiespress.org/
dc.rights© 2016, Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook, J. Hillis Miller. This is an open access book, licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution Share Alike license. Under this license, no permission is required from the authors or the publisher for anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy their work so long as the authors and source are cited and resulting derivative works are licensed under the same license. Statutory fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Read more about the license at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0en
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dc.subjectThe anthropoceneen
dc.subjectEco-critical and environmental humanitiesen
dc.subjectPaul de man’s theory of readingen
dc.subjectAnthropomorphismen
dc.subjectThe sublimeen
dc.subjectCritical activismen
dc.subjectJurgen Habermasen
dc.titleTwilight of the Anthropocene idolsen
dc.typeBooken
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