Welcoming the World
Welcoming the World
Post-Ecological Fiction
Highlighting neoliberalism’s simultaneous capture of environmental sustainability and deep ecology, this chapter looks at recent environmental literature and identifies a strong posthuman ecology that might transform neoliberalism from within. Mat Johnson’s Pym gets things started with yet another novel reluctant to critique, a novel that instead highlights new forms for engaging neoliberalism’s callous exploitation of our environment. In Kim Stanley Robinson’s Antarctica, that form proves to be science, which Robinson advocates as a way of speaking for the world without imposing human interest, subjectivity, or perspective on it. Finally, Tom McCarthy’s Remainder shows us that science is not the only way to welcome the world. Literary fiction can too when it opens itself up to non-identity, to the entire universe of things and the shared oblivion toward which they tend.
Keywords: ecology, science, irony, sustainability, posthumanism
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