Ecology without the Present

TitleEcology without the Present
Publication TypeJournal Article
JournalOxford Literary Review
Volume34
Issue2
Pagination229-238
ISSN0305-1498
AbstractThe fact of the Anthropocene makes the metaphysics of presence radically unthinkable. At the same time, and for the same reasons, it reveals to humans a non-totalisable set of unique beings, which this essay calls objects. These objects have a past and a future, but no present.
URLhttp://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/olr.2012.0043
DOI10.3366/olr.2012.0043
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