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1 Other works in which this trope can be found, albeit sometimes less explicitly, are John Feffer’s novel Splinterlands, Richard McGuire’s comic book Here, and Dale Pendell’s novel The Great Bay.
2 Oreskes and Conway, Collapse, 31–33.
3 Ibid., ix.
4 Ibid., 1–2.
5 Ibid., 9.
6 Ibid.
7 One can hear echoes here of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s critique of Enlightenment modernity in Dialectic of Enlightenment. Though Adorno and Horkheimer were not concerned with environmental issues, it can be argued that humanity’s failure adequately to address the climate crisis is a symptom of the struggle for the domination of nature made possible through Enlightenment, as were, in their view, fascism and totalitarianism. Krebber, “Anthropocentrism and Reason,” 323.
8 Oreskes and Conway, Collapse, 59–60.
9 Ibid., ix–x.
10 Zalasiewicz, The Earth after Us, 1.
11 Ibid.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid., 3.
14 Ibid., xi.
15 Ibid., xiii.
16 Ibid., xiv.
17 Ibid., 217.
18 Ibid., 219.
19 Ibid., 121, 7.
20 Colebrook, Death of the PostHuman, 24. It is worth noting that Jan Zalasiewicz is the convenor of the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Union of Geological Sciences, which announced on 29 August 2016 that it is preparing a formal proposal to designate the Anthropocene as an official unit of geological time. Carrington, “The Anthropocene Epoch.”
21 Klein, “Climate Change,” 84.
22 Ibid., 85.
23 Chakrabarty, “Postcolonial Studies,” 2.
24 Currie, About Time, 5.
25 Ibid., 6.
26 Currie, The Unexpected, 67, 6.
27 See Maier, “Surfeit of Memory?”
28 Quoted in Crownshaw, “Future of Memory,” 3.
29 Ibid.
30 Gutman, Brown, and Sodaro, “Introduction,” 1.
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid., 2.
33 See, for example, Levy and Sznaider, Human Rights and Memory; Huyssen, “International Human Rights.”
34 See, for example, Hamilton, “Activist Memories;” Reading and Katriel, eds, Cultural Memories.
35 See https://notstupid.org/.
36 See https://1010uk.org/.
37 Oreskes and Conway, Collapse, 79.
38 Ibid.
39 Quoted in Mooney, “How Western Civilization Ended.”
40 Zalasiewicz, The Earth after Us, 5.
41 Ibid.
42 Ibid., 239.
43 Ibid.
44 Ibid., 240. Zalasiewicz’s call on humanity to minimize its impact on the planet sits somewhat uneasily, though, with his book’s evident fascination with the idea of humanity being remembered in the very distant future, which requires that a clear and unique mark be left in the geological record.
45 Levy and Sznaider, Human Rights and Memory, 4.
46 Such a connection between the Holocaust and climate change is also made by Timothy Snyder in his book Black Earth.
47 Crimp, “Mourning and Militancy,” 18.
48 Eng and Kazanjian, “Introduction,” 10.
49 Ibid.
50 Cvetkovich, “Legacies of Trauma,” 453.
51 See Butler, Frames of War; and Precarious Life.
52 This hopeful, politicized type of mourning is to be distinguished from the (non-proleptic) kind of impossible mourning or melancholia described by Margaret Ronda in her essay “Mourning and Melancholia in the Anthropocene.” Ronda focuses on Juliana Spahr’s exemplary Anthropocene poem “Gentle Now, Don’t Add to Heartache,” which she analyses as a failed elegy that ‘lingers in self-punishing grief because there is no way to cope with or atone for the sense of human culpability that emerges here, no way even to grasp its material or psychological consequences’.
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Stef Craps
Stef Craps is an associate professor of English literature at Ghent University, where he directs the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative. His latest books are Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies (Berghahn, 2017), which he co-edited. Email: [email protected]