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Grotesque Anthropocene

Predpokladaný dátum vydania: 24.3.2026

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O knihe

This open access book explores the excesses, distortions and perverse affects that emerge when art and popular culture refuse reverence for nostalgic views on nature. eveloping Phoebe Wagner's pioneering concept of the environmental grotesque, the book's authors argues that the problem is not ignorance of the crisis but rather poverty in our imaginative responses. Grotesque Anthropocene thus offers a needed rupture of our current ecological sensibilities, attending to the productive ambiguities of works across media, from art and literature to film and television.

Erik Erlanson is associate senior lecturer at the Department of Film and Literature at Linnaeus University and a member of the Linnaeus Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies.ve appeared in journals such as Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History, Edda and The Nordic Journal of Cultural Policy.

Nicolai Skiveren is a postdoctoral research fellow at the New Zealand Centre for Human Animal Studies (NZCHAS) at Canterbury University, New Zealand. His work is situated at the intersection of ecocriticism, ecomedia, and audience reception studies and has appeared in Environmental Humanities, Green Letters, Ekphrasis, as well as the edited volume on Empirical Ecocriticism published by the University of Minnesota Press. Currently, he is PI on a research project on empirical ecocriticism funded by the Carlsberg Foundation (“Bridging the Gap: Qualitative Empirical Ecocriticism and the Impact of Environmental Narrative”).

Jacob Wamberg, dr.phil., is independent scholar and former professor of art history at Aarhus University. He works on a historiography of avant-garde art, syncretically aligning posthumanism with complexity theory, media ecology and evolutionary philosophy. His publications include Landscape as World Picture: Tracing Cultural Evolution in Images ([2005] 2009), Totalitarian Art and Modernity (2010, ed. with Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen), Art, Technology and Nature: Renaissance to Postmodernity (2015, ed. with Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam), and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism (2020, ed. with Mads Rosendahl Thomsen).