Spectrality and survivance

• Verfasst von: Grech, Marija [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Spectrality and survivance
• Titelzusatz: living the anthropocene
• Verf.angabe: Marija Grech
• Verlagsort: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: [2022]
• Umfang: viii, 148 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Critical perspectives on theory, culture, and politics
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-415-5
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-416-2
• Schlagwörter: (s)Philosophische Anthropologie / (s)Menschheit / (s)Mensch
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Grech, Marija: Spectrality and Survivance. - Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022. - 1 online resource (157 pages)
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Grech, Marija, 1983 - : Spectrality and survivance. - Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. - 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 148 Seiten)
• K10plus-PPN: 1797691252

Abstract

"The notion of the Anthropocene is founded on the premise that traces of human activity on the earth will remain legible in the geological strata for millions of years to come, showing evidence of an anthropogenic 'signature' inscribed in the rock by the human species. Spectrality and Survivance shows how embedded in this understanding of the Anthropocene is a speculative and specular gesture that transforms the notion of the future into an anthropocentric reflection of the present, prohibiting any true engagement with the possibility of a non-anthropocentric and post-anthropocenic world. In this volume, Marija Grech develops an alternative conceptual paradigm from which to think the Anthropocene beyond any limited notion of human language, human thought, human systems of meaning, or even a human world. Grech considers how the geological trace of the Anthropocene might be said to 'survive' outside of the possibility of any human readership, and how the very survival of the human in and beyond the Anthropocene might necessitate such thought"--