The Sea, Not the Ocean
Anthropocene Fiction and the Memory of (Non)human Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8095773 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pieter Vermeulen (0000-0003-1992-1646, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 181-200 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Genre (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-6928 • E-ISSN: 2160-0228 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00166928-3890028 |
| OpenAlex | W2499555411 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 23 |
Starting from the observation that the notion of the Anthropocene invites us to alter the ways in which we imagine human life (and the relations between different human lives), this essay argues that transnational accounts of literature and culture—in the fairly new field of oceanic studies, for instance—need to expand their scope from intercultural relations to include the relationships between different (human) forms of life and (human as well as nonhuman) life forms. The essay develops this argument through a dialogue between J. M. Ledgard's planetary novel Submergence from 2011 and contemporary theories of the posthuman (Ray Brassier, Eugene Thacker) and the Anthropocene (Ian Baucom, Dipesh Chakrabarty), in order to demonstrate that the literary novel has a vital role to play in the imagining of new forms of (non)human relatedness. Developing Submergence's distinction between the (radically nonhuman) ocean and the (human-related) sea, the essay puts forward the argument that human life in the Anthropocene is marked by what the essay theorizes, with the help of Emmanuel Levinas, Giorgio Agamben, and Walter Benjamin, as “immemorial life”: a relation to radically nonhuman life forms that cannot be actualized in the imagining and remembering of human life in the Anthropocene
Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Argument (complex analysis · Biology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Human condition · Human enhancement · Human life · Humanity · Order (exchange · Posthuman · Relation (database · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · History · Philosophy
Arborealism, or do novels do trees
The Limits of Planet e arth
Ecological sensibility and the pursuit of progress in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow
The Anthropocene Concept in the Natural and Social Sciences, the Humanities and Law – A Bibliometric Analysis and a Qualitative Interpretation (2000–2020)
Storied Seas and Living Metaphors in the Blue Humanities
Nihil Unbound
Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Toward a Blue Cultural Studies
Of other seas
Introduction
History 4°
The Human Shore
Poetics of relation
Baucom’s Critique
"The Mediterranean and "the New Thalassology
The Catachronism of Climate Change
Death of the PostHuman
Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change
Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene
Geologic subjects
The Climate of History
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |