Anthropo-Scenes
Staging Climate Chaos in the Drama of Bad Ideas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20050698 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Una Chaudhuri (New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 303-321 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Twenty-First Century Drama (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/978-1-137-48403-1_15 |
| OpenAlex | W2499789126 |
| ISBN | 9781137484031 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 9 |
The scale and complexity of climate change, as well as its often incremental and unspectacular nature, pose formidable obstacles to dramatic representation. Wallace Shawn’s recent play Grasses of a Thousand Colors subtly distorts the conventions of the thesis play, or drama of ideas, to reveal the habits of mind that are responsible for our species’ steady progress towards ecological disaster. A ‘drama of bad ideas’ for the Anthropocene, the play also uses some of Shawn’s abiding themes, especially food and sex, to propose a new understanding of the human, beyond psychological subjecthood and socio-political agency: the human as a geophysical force, with behaviours and practices that produce catastrophic ‘scale-effects’ and call for a new species-centric consciousness to cure the ecological myopia of previous group identities
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Anthropocene · Art · Biology · Cartography · Consciousness · Drama · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Literature · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics) · Scale (ratio) · Social science · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
Life, Re-Scaled
Dead Gods and Geontopower
To Be or Not to Be a Patient
Mycoaesthetics
The Fiction of the Empty Pandemic City
Staging Larger Scales and Deep Entanglements
Introduction
Depopulating the Novel
The Everyday Pluriverse
Human Environmental Aesthetics
Displacing the Human
Still Life and Vital Matter in Gillian Clarke’s Poetry
The Narrative and Aesthetic Strategies of Climate Change Comics
A Twisted, Looping Form
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |