Ecocritique is a practice of radical questioning, as essential to
the critical armoury as feminism and postcolonialism have become.
Like them, it extends beyond judgements about texts with clear
ecological themes, demonstrating the significance of ecocriticism
for any advanced understanding of cultural forms. Anecdotal method
is ecocritical because it focuses on encounters, concentrated
moments of crisis when social ordering and ecological forces clash.
The anecdote's power to produce events, meanings and history forms
a methodological entry to aesthetic politics. Anecdotal Evidence
provides an outline of the need for and principles of anecdotal
method; a case study of eco-critical themes in Hollywood films
shaped by the Global Financial Crisis; and a confrontation with
mass image databases of social and streaming media that due to
their scale and organisation appear at first immune to anecdotal
method. Only because the environment has a history is it possible
to intervene environmentally. Because we continually misrecognise
the historical production of environments, the first task of
ecocritique is to bring our formative concept of ecology into
crisis. Its final task will be to achieve the good life for
everything connected by the historical implication of humans in
ecology, and ecology in humans. No politics can be undertaken in
our times except through media: ecocritical humanities have a key
role in rethinking ecopolitics in the 21st century.
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