Corbin Hiday: Resident Graduate Seminar
Dissertation Writing Working Group/Resident Graduate Seminar
October 14, 2020
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location
Via Zoom (Registration info in Description)
Address
Chicago, IL 60612
Calendar
Download iCal FileOctober 14, 2020; 2-4pm, via Zoom (info below)
Resident Graduate Seminar: Corbin Hiday, Department of English
Precirculated Seminar paper: ” ‘A Crisis of the Imagination’: Towards a Poetics of Extraction”
Recently, critics like Amitav Ghosh, Bob Johnson, Jennifer Wenzel, and the Petrocultures Research Group at the University of Alberta suggest that the climate crisis is also a crisis of the imagination. Ghosh, perhaps most famously in his status as novelist-critic, turns to the contemporary novel and claims that “the climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination.” In this essay, I argue that this crisis has a prehistory in the nineteenth century, and that the global character of the fossil economy is inscribed in a transnational, transhistorical poetics of extraction. I read George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss and J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World together in order to articulate how the relation between progress and exhaustion within fossil modernity presupposes crisis. In imagining energy regimes alongside catastrophe, these novels illustrate the dead ends of carbon modernity.
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Date posted
Sep 22, 2020
Date updated
Sep 22, 2020