... the Anthropocene (165). Rereading in this light the enigmatic, often paradoxical axioms—the “core yet elusive [ . . . ] principles at the limits of thought”—that Blanchot’s book turns on, Schuster concludes that “l’écriture du désastre” (writing the disaster) works not by writing about disaster as if disaster...

.... Such an apocalyptic conception of time threatens to collapse the dire and specific conditions of environmental degradation that we find ourselves in at this moment of the Anthropocene, with the prophetic and inevitable logic of the monumental time of catastrophe—a logic that Bök’s project reiterates on multiple...

... of the Anthropocene and its consequences. From an anthropocentric perspective, garbage names stuff that has lost its value. Released from human systems of worth, garbage acquires a steadfastness all its own. It stubbornly accumulates and contaminates, it corrodes and seeps into things (Douglas). Around...

... of apocalyptic imaginaries; as Foucault puts it, citing Baudelaire in “What Is Enlightenment”: “[W]e are each of us celebrating some funeral” (310). Like Foucault, I write “over the corpses of others” ( Speech 40 ). And so in my own current work on the Anthropocene, I am digging into the restless grave...

...-organization of the text. Covid-19 will bequeath to us, when it eventually recedes into the background, a sense of the heightened vulnerability of the Anthropocene belief in a human-centered, rational, and progressive West. The pandemic will have emphasized and radicalized various types of inequality...

... then Guattari, it is simply a feeling, but gave me the dimensions of ‘she’ ” a feeling without anthropocen- (52). Becoming-animal, as insti- tric sentimentalism: it is a mat...