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The Weird as Contingency and Fate in the Empty Space Trilogy [PDF]
The paper examines how in his Empty Space trilogy, M. John Harrison uses weird fiction to represent the failure of both human epistemology and agency in dealing with the new and the unthinkable.
Claudio Murgia
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The Trembling Giant as Hyperobject
The Trembling Giant’s tremulous technique emerges form a direct engagement with the experimental films and ‘Nervous System’ and ‘Nervous Magic Lantern’ performances of Ken Jacobs who has spent many decades projecting images through a spinning propeller ...
Tarrant, PA
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Mapping Diversity. The Memory Street Names Celebrate [PDF]
In his book Digital Methods, Richard Rogers enshrines the end of the “virtual” by pointing out how the online and physical worlds are intrinsically linked (2015).
Matteo Moretti
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Decouplement: Commodity Geography of the Corpse
ABSTRACT This article examines the commodification of the human corpse from the point of view of its disposal. Whilst offering some analysis on the circulation and harvesting of repurposed human tissues, existing literature does not discuss how these are discarded.
Mark Shtanov
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Auftritt der KI: Zur Darstellung posthumaner Arbeitswelten in Sibylle Bergs GRM Brainfuck
The article deals with Sibylle Berg's novel GRM Brainfuck (2019), which focuses on a 'working world' that is being transformed by digitization processes.
Marietta Schmutz
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ABSTRACT Contemporary ecocriticism and the American Gothic tradition share an investment in the psychic repression of terrors lurking just beyond the articulable. Amitav Ghosh's assertion that the history of fossil fuels is ‘a matter of embarrassment verging on the unspeakable’ and Timothy Morton's conception of ecocatastrophe as ‘an uncanny entity ...
Megan Cole
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Practicing Fashion with the Anthropocene
Odradek, a strange creature in Franz Kafka’s tale “The Cares of a Family Man,” outlives the narrator, thus becoming a device to think about a world devoid of any narrative necessity.
Patricia Wu Wu
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Hyletic Phenomenology and Hyperobjects [PDF]
Abstract In this paper, I attempt to argue alongside Clayton Crockett that Timothy Morton’s hyperobjects can be extended to encompass every object, not merely those that are large in comparison to human beings. However, unlike Crockett who uses the works of Derrida and Lacan to achieve this goal, I turn to Husserl’s underdeveloped theory
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Business ethics, law and zemiology: The criminology of social and environmental harm
Abstract This speculative paper introduces zemiology, an extension of radical criminology which explores why many ‘crimes’ are not ‘illegal’ by focussing on the problem of ‘social harm’. Zemiology insists that we should begin with social or environmental problems, and not allow their foreclosure by the distraction of whether a particular practice is ...
Robin Klimecki, Martin Parker
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ABSTRACT This article is concerned with the long poem doggerland (2021) by Ulrike Draesner, which we read here primarily in its relationship to the temporal disorder of the Anthropocene. We explore some specific manifestations of what we term ‘Anthropocene arrhythmia’ in Draesner's text, in particular through its engagement with linearity and ...
Nicola Thomas, Katie Ritson
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