From Ducks, Newburyport to zombie movies and the Fast and Furious franchise, how climate anxiety permeates our culture
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''.
Tracing the outlines of the Anthropocene unconscious in a range of film, television and l
