Environmental Humanities on the Brink: The Vanitas Hypothesis by Bruyere, Vincent
Environmental Humanities on the Brink: The Vanitas Hypothesis by Bruyere, Vincent

Environmental Humanities on the Brink: The Vanitas Hypothesis

In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amid spectacularly...
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Environmental Humanities on the Brink: The Vanitas Hypothesis by Bruyere, Vincent

Environmental Humanities on the Brink: The Vanitas Hypothesis

$84.89
Environmental Humanities on the Brink: The Vanitas Hypothesis by Bruyere, Vincent

Environmental Humanities on the Brink: The Vanitas Hypothesis

$84.89
Author: Vincent Bruyere
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amid spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse.

The vanitas paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dazzlingly depict heaps of riches alongside skulls, shells, and hourglasses. Sometimes even featuring the illusion that their canvases are peeling away, vanitas images openly declare their own pointlessness in relation to the future. This book takes inspiration from the vanitas tradition to fearlessly contemplate the stakes of the humanities in the Anthropocene present, when the accumulated human record could well outlast the climate conditions for our survival. Staging a series of unsettling encounters with early modern texts and images whose claims of relevance have long since expired, Bruyere experiments with the interpretive affordances of allegory and fairytale, still life and travelogues. Each chapter places a vanitas motif--canvas, debris, toxics, paper, ark, meat, and light--in conversation with stories and images of the Anthropocene, from the Pleistocene Park geoengineering project to toxic legacies to in-vitro meat.

Considering questions of quiet erasure and environmental memory, this book argues we ought to keep reading, even by the flickering light of extinction.



Author: Vincent Bruyere
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 09/19/2023
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781503638631
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