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The cultural use of the concept of the Anthropocene usually includes the problem that climate, unlike weather, is not organized in an event-like manner and not directly perceptible, so human imagination is facing a serious challenge when it tries to think about climate change. This problem mostly leads to the question of the performance of narrative art: the debate is shaped by the positions of the parties on whether they see the non-eventual character of the climate change as an obstacle to be overcome. If so, narrative arts (especially film and literature) will play a prominent role, precisely because they can help to make the intangible global phenomena tangible and imaginable. If, on the other hand, we realize, that climate change simply lacks any narrative, moral or emotional component, and is a far too complex phenomenon to be organized into a chain of causality, then it seems to be a misleading concept to rely on the power of storytelling. This latter approach, in turn, raises the question of why and how could/should we read fiction at all in the Anthropocene if not for experiencing stories? This question is also specific to the Digital Humanities, which is often defined as a particular way of reading (machine, distant etc.) The poster shows how new ways of reading, all connected to digital media, can help us to redefine what we think about the reception and analysis of literary works in the Anthropocene era. These practices are: 1. mobile contextualization (or hyper-reading, surface reading, scale framing); 2. reading for mood, 3. machine reading of texts. The focus on reading is further motivated by the realization that understanding our world has traditionally been associated with its 'readability', but that this metaphor may no longer be able to describe our relationship to culture and the world. |
