The Anthropocene and the Undead
Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 22. March 2022
276 pages
978-1-9787-8837-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end of the world. In fact, as described here, much of how we understand the anthropocene both conceptually and in practice involves undead entities from the past that will not die, undead traumas that rise up and consume the world, and undead temporalities that can never end. Fifteen original essays by cultural and anthropological experts such as Kyle William Bishop, Nils Bubandt, Johan Höglund, and Steffen Hantke, among others, study the nature of humanity's ongoing complicated relationship to the environment via the concept of the undead. In doing so, The Anthropocene and the Undead sheds invaluable light on adjacent concepts such as the Capitalocene, Necrocene, Disanthropocene, Post-anthropocene, and the Symbiocene to trace real and imagined trajectories of our more-than-human selves into undead and undying futures.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 b/w illustrations; 7 b/w photos;
ISBN-13
978-1-9787-8837-4 (9781978788374)
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Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination
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Content
Introduction
Simon Bacon
Part I: Undead Identity in the Anthropocene
Chapter 1: (Un)Death of the Father: Self-Sacrificing Paternity in Modern Zombie Narratives
Kyle William Bishop
Chapter 2: Undeath, Theatricality, and the EcoGothic in DC Moore's Common (2017)
Gheorghe Williams
Chapter 3: Maggie in the Necrocene
Johan Höglund
Part II: Undead Spaces and "Zones" of the Anthropocene
Chapter 4: The Uncanny Valley of the Anthropocene: Short Stories About the Undead Under the Brightest of Lights
Nils Bubandt
Chapter 5: Mutants and Tourists: Horror Film, Sacrifice Zones, and Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
Steffen Hantke
Chapter 6: A Panic on the 4th of July: Municipal Malfeasance, Mutation and Monstrosity in Barry Levinson's The Bay (2012)
Rebecca Stone Gordon
Part III: The Anthropocene and the End of "Time"
Chapter 7: "Dying All the Time": The Future as the Extended Present and the Zombification of History in the Anthropocene
Elana Gomel
Chapter 8: Avenging the Anthropocene: Returning the Dead to Li
Simon Bacon
Part I: Undead Identity in the Anthropocene
Chapter 1: (Un)Death of the Father: Self-Sacrificing Paternity in Modern Zombie Narratives
Kyle William Bishop
Chapter 2: Undeath, Theatricality, and the EcoGothic in DC Moore's Common (2017)
Gheorghe Williams
Chapter 3: Maggie in the Necrocene
Johan Höglund
Part II: Undead Spaces and "Zones" of the Anthropocene
Chapter 4: The Uncanny Valley of the Anthropocene: Short Stories About the Undead Under the Brightest of Lights
Nils Bubandt
Chapter 5: Mutants and Tourists: Horror Film, Sacrifice Zones, and Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
Steffen Hantke
Chapter 6: A Panic on the 4th of July: Municipal Malfeasance, Mutation and Monstrosity in Barry Levinson's The Bay (2012)
Rebecca Stone Gordon
Part III: The Anthropocene and the End of "Time"
Chapter 7: "Dying All the Time": The Future as the Extended Present and the Zombification of History in the Anthropocene
Elana Gomel
Chapter 8: Avenging the Anthropocene: Returning the Dead to Li
