The Anthropocene and the Undead

Simon Bacon

doi:10.5771/9781793625830

Summary

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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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-2582-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-2583-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 266
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. From Now to Then: The Future of the Anthropocene No access
2. Notes No access
3. Works Cited No access
1. 1. Nontoxic Fatherhood No access
  2. (Super)hero Fathers No access
  3. Everyman Father Heroes No access
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2. 1. Enclosure: Ecogothic Politics No access
  2. Mary Returns (Again): Ecogothic Space No access
  3. “Breathe & Moan & Bleed”: Ecogothic Objects No access
  4. “Harvest Burns”: Ecogothic Ends No access
  5. Conclusions: Undeath as Estrangement No access
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3. 1. Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Ecological Crisis No access
  2. Back to the Uncanny Farm No access
  3. Maggie in the Web of Life/Death No access
  4. Conclusion: Undead in the Necrocene No access
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1. 1. Short Story 1: Viral Creep No access
  2. Short Story 2: Water Bear on a Wire No access
  3. Conclusion: The New Uncanny No access
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2. 1. Chernobyl Diaries: Horror Film Genealogy No access
  2. Welcome to the Zone: Wealth Extraction from Past Disaster No access
  3. Conclusion: How Neoliberalism Reimagines Sacrifice Zones No access
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3. 1. The Return of the Repressed: The Bay’s Mockumentary Form No access
  2. The (Un)Dead Zone No access
  3. The Mayor of Shark City No access
  4. New Contaminants in Old Containers No access
  5. The Nightmare below the Surface No access
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1. 1. The Present Shock (and Other Chronic Conditions) No access
  2. Bored to/of Death No access
  3. Crusades of the Undead No access
  4. Gaia or Lilith? No access
  5. The World without History No access
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2. 1. Avengers Introduces Death into the MCU No access
  2. Who Cares about the Planet; Is Spider Man Okay? No access
  3. Your Choice: Immediate or Slow Death of the Planet No access
  4. Conclusion: Death Is Not the Problem, Avoiding Death Is No access
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3. 1. The World without Us No access
  2. Myth and Hubris No access
  3. Time and Catastrophe No access
  4. Death and the Abcanny: Beyond Chernobyl No access
  5. Conclusion: A Spectacle of Nothing No access
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2. 1. Suburban Ticks and Bacterial Hitchhikers No access
  2. The Ontological Amphibian No access
  3. Feminist Speculative Science (Fiction) No access
  4. The Entanglement and Our Terra Body No access
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3. 1. Tailings Ponds: Dead or Alive? No access
  2. Microbiological Vitality in the Tailings Ponds No access
  3. Reclamation in the Oil Sands Tailings Ponds No access
  4. Post-Anthropocene? No access
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1. 1. Abstract No access
  2. The Ecocritical Dystopian Posthuman No access
  3. Lai’s Posthuman Laborers No access
  4. Bacigalupi’s Undying Hypercapitalists No access
  5. Toward? a Post-Anthropocenic Geologic Epoch No access
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2. 1. Invasion of the Child Snatchers No access
  2. Psychic Parasitism: The Merging of Minds No access
  3. Sympathy for the Parasite No access
  4. The Mind Flayer as Puppet Master No access
  5. Nature as Communistic Parasite No access
  6. Conclusion No access
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3. 1. Nature as Refuge No access
  2. Nature’s Revenge No access
  3. Zombie Becomings No access
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Index No access Pages 255 - 260
About the Contributors No access Pages 261 - 266