The Anthropocene Unconscious av Mark Bould

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<b>From <i>Ducks, Newburyport</i> to zombie movies and the Fast and Furious franchise, how climate anxiety permeates our culture</b><br><br>The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene - the term given to this geological epoch in which humans, anthropos, are wreaking havoc on the earth - is to be found bubbling away everywhere in contemporary cultural production. Typically, discussions of how culture registers, figures and mediates climate change focus on ''climate fiction'' or ''cli-fi'', but The Anthropocene Unconscious is more interested in how the Anthropocene and especially anthropogenic climate destabilisation manifests in texts that are not overtly about climate change - that is, unconsciously. The Anthropocene, Mark Bould argues, constitutes the unconscious of ''the art and literature of our time''.<br><br>Tracing the outlines of the Anthropocene unconscious in a range of film, television and l