What on World is the Earth? The Anthropocene and Fictions of the World

Clark, Timothy

Abstract

Timothy Clark, ‘What on World is the Earth?: The Anthropocene and Fictions of the World’ This paper develops a concept of the terrestrial as an abyssal boundary to the thinkable, looking to David Wood’s deconstructive eco-phenomenology. The main section deploys this concept of the terrestrial to read various accounts and images of the sight of the whole earth from space. This then suggests a reading of Derrida’s arguments on the ‘fiction of the world’. This material is framed at both ends of the paper by consideration of the “Anthropocene” as an ‘event’ which seems to exceed or query elements of Derrida’s definition of the ‘event’.

Citation

Clark, T. (2013). What on World is the Earth? The Anthropocene and Fictions of the World. Oxford Literary Review, 35(1), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.3366/olr.2013.0054

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2013
• Deposit Date: Sep 23, 2013
• Journal: Oxford Literary Review
• Print ISSN: 0305-1498
• Electronic ISSN: 1757-1634
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5-24
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/olr.2013.0054
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1449654