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Subsurface (Paperback)
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Subsurface (Paperback)
Series: Posthumanities
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A bold new consideration of climate change between narratives of
the Earth's layers and policy of the present Long seen as a realm
of mystery and possibility, the subsurface beneath our feet has
taken on all-too-real import in the era of climate change. Can
reading narratives of the past that take imaginative leaps under
the surface better attune us to our present knowledge of a warming
planet? In Subsurface, Karen Pinkus looks below the surface of
texts by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Sand, E. T. A.
Hoffmann, and Jules Verne to find the buried origins of capitalist
fantasies in which humans take what they want from the earth.
Putting such texts into conversation with narrative theory,
critical theory, geology, and climate policy, she shows that the
subsurface has been, in our past, a place of myth and stories of
male voyages down to gain knowledge-but it is also now the realm of
fossil fuels. How do these two modes intertwine? A highly original
take on evocative terms such as extraction, burial, fossils, deep
time, and speculative futurity, Subsurface questions the certainty
of comfortable narrative arcs. It asks us to read literature with
and against the figure of the geological column, with and against
fossil fuels and the emissions warming our planet. As we see our
former selves move into the distance, what new modes of imagination
might we summon?
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