Fragments from the History of Loss | Green Louise | Twarda

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pThe Anthropocene's urgent message about imminent disaster invites us to forget about history and to focus on the present as it careens into an unthinkable future. To counter this, Louise Green engages with the theoretical framing of nature in concepts such as the Anthropocene, the great acceleration, and rewilding in order to explore what the philosophy of nature in the era of climate change might look like from postcolonial Africa.ppUtilizing a practice of reading developed in the Frankfurt school, Green rearranges narrative fragments from the global nature industry, which subjugates all aspects of nature to the logic of capitalist production, in order to disrupt preconceived notions and habitual ways of thinking about how we inhabit the Anthropocene. Examining climate change through the details of everyday life, particularly the history of conspicuous consumption and the exploitation of Africa, she surfaces the myths and fantasies that have brought the world to its current ecologica

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