Diletta De Cristofaro
Biographic Data
| ID | 822900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diletta De Cristofaro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diletta |
| FAMILY NAME | De Cristofaro |
| SIGNATURE | DE CRISTOFARO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6934-6881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
How do you sleep at night knowing all this: Climate Breakdown, Sleep, and Extractive Capitalism in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Contributing to the emerging field of critical sleep studies, and developing an intervention situated at the intersection of the environmental and the medical humanities, this article considers a range of contemporary texts: Jenny Offill’s realist novel Weather (2020), Karen Russell’s Sleep Donation (2014), Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves (2017) and Hunting by Stars (2021) – three examples of the ‘sleep-apocalypse’ genre – Finegan Kruckemeye…
Patterns of Repetition: Colonialism, Capitalism and Climate Breakdown in Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Scenario one, from The Marrow Thieves (2017) by Cherie Dimaline (Métis): in a post-apocalyptic North America ravaged by climate breakdown, where ‘all the industry-plundered Great Lakes [are] poison’, Indigenous people find themselves trapped, once again, in a residential school system.1 This time, the residential schools are ‘harvesting’ Indigenous people for their ability to dream, in order to treat the epidemic of dreamlessness that is killing …
Critical Temporalities: Station Eleven and the Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel
This article examines Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2014) in the context of the growing body of contemporary post-apocalyptic fictions and what I argue is their critique of the apocalyptic tradition. Traditional apocalyptic narratives reveal a utopian teleology to history, a conception of time that deeply informs western modernity and its metanarratives. The contemporary post-apocalyptic novel, instead, is not only predominantly dystopi…
Contemporary Studies Network Roundtable: Responding to Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Generation Anthropocene’
In April 2016, The Guardian published ‘Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet forever’ by the celebrated academic and nature writer Robert Macfarlane. Reflecting on the article’s importance as a critical experiment and, perhaps, a vital form of public engagement, Contemporary Studies Network (CSN) asked six of its members, working across very different areas of literary and cultural studies, to respond to and extend Macfarlan…
Low Theory for the End of Pre-History: A Review of McKenzie Wark, Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene
Low Theory for the End of Pre-History: A Review of McKenzie Wark, Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene Diletta De Cristofaro (bio) Wark, McKenzie. Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene. London: Verso, 2016. Print. McKenzie Wark’s Molecular Red is a provocative call for new critical theory – or “new-old” (Wark xii), given its roots in marginalized strands of the Marxist tradition – for the age of the Anthropocene. The “Anthropocene” is …
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Low Theory for the End of Pre-History: A Review of McKenzie Wark, Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene
Low Theory for the End of Pre-History: A Review of McKenzie Wark, Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene Diletta De Cristofaro (bio) Wark, McKenzie. Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene. London: Verso, 2016. Print. McKenzie Wark’s Molecular Red is a provocative call for new critical theory – or “new-old” (Wark xii), given its roots in marginalized strands of the Marxist tradition – for the age of the Anthropocene. The “Anthropocene” is …
Contemporary Studies Network Roundtable: Responding to Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Generation Anthropocene’
In April 2016, The Guardian published ‘Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet forever’ by the celebrated academic and nature writer Robert Macfarlane. Reflecting on the article’s importance as a critical experiment and, perhaps, a vital form of public engagement, Contemporary Studies Network (CSN) asked six of its members, working across very different areas of literary and cultural studies, to respond to and extend Macfarlan…
Critical Temporalities: Station Eleven and the Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel
This article examines Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2014) in the context of the growing body of contemporary post-apocalyptic fictions and what I argue is their critique of the apocalyptic tradition. Traditional apocalyptic narratives reveal a utopian teleology to history, a conception of time that deeply informs western modernity and its metanarratives. The contemporary post-apocalyptic novel, instead, is not only predominantly dystopi…
Patterns of Repetition: Colonialism, Capitalism and Climate Breakdown in Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Scenario one, from The Marrow Thieves (2017) by Cherie Dimaline (Métis): in a post-apocalyptic North America ravaged by climate breakdown, where ‘all the industry-plundered Great Lakes [are] poison’, Indigenous people find themselves trapped, once again, in a residential school system.1 This time, the residential schools are ‘harvesting’ Indigenous people for their ability to dream, in order to treat the epidemic of dreamlessness that is killing …
How do you sleep at night knowing all this: Climate Breakdown, Sleep, and Extractive Capitalism in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Contributing to the emerging field of critical sleep studies, and developing an intervention situated at the intersection of the environmental and the medical humanities, this article considers a range of contemporary texts: Jenny Offill’s realist novel Weather (2020), Karen Russell’s Sleep Donation (2014), Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves (2017) and Hunting by Stars (2021) – three examples of the ‘sleep-apocalypse’ genre – Finegan Kruckemeye…
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