Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture nr 12/2022: Recent submissions
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The Nature of Irrevocability: Anthropocene Nostalgia in Hayley Eichenbaum’s Photography Series The Mother Road
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The recent acknowledgement of the Anthropocene, resulting from the increasingly visible human-induced effects on the biosphere, has ultimately obliterated the nature/culture division (Latour; Chakrabarty), prompting ... -
“The Paradise of How It Has to Be”: Writing About the Future of the Earth in a Time of Decline. A Conversation with William deBuys
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Firing up the Anthropocene: Conflagration, Representation and Temporality in Modern Australia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The European colonization of Australia introduced a new population into a continent in which Indigenous people had practiced cyclic burning as a form of ecosystem maintenance since time immemorial. The settlers’ complete ... -
Prophesying the End of Human Time: Eco-Anxiety and Regress in J. G. Ballard’s Short Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Despite being written half a century before the term “eco-anxiety” (Gifford and Gifford) was coined, J. G. Ballard’s disaster fictions can be read in the context of the social psychodynamics of climate change. My aim in ... -
How Deep Time Can Help Shape the Present: Existential Economics, “Joyful Insignificance” and the Future of the Ecological Transition
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)An awareness of deep time—both humanity’s deep past and the Earth’s deep future—and an understanding of its existential implications can significantly enhance the chances that humanity might still be able to transition ... -
Robustness and Vulnerability: Caring for the Earth in an Age of Loss
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Winter’s Tales
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“Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future”: Writing About the Long Descent, Practicing Green Wizardry. A Conversation with John Michael Greer
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Comics in the Anthropocene: Graphic Narratives of Apocalypse, Regeneration and Warning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Narratives of the Anthropocene function in the realm of not only scientific but also popular discourses. Indeed, the most popular narratives of the Anthropocene, namely the story of the apocalypse and the story of progress, ... -
“Stories of Making and Unmaking”: Deep Time and the Anthropocene in New Nature Writing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)New Nature Writing reflects many of the anxieties which are becoming increasingly prevalent in the Anthropocene, an era which necessitates temporal leaps between the present moment, the deep past, and the deep future. ... -
Introduction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)