September 24, 2021
Solvejg Nitzke, « „A Temptation to the Imagination“ – The Future History of US-American Literature (Long Read) », Ecological Imaginaries, ID : 10670/1.bqqong
This is a paper I gave in summer 2020. I haven't gotten to turning it into a 'proper' article, yet, but I don't believe in things rotting in my cloud, so here it is and I'd be thrilled to hear your thoughts on my thinking together deep time and literary history (with US-American literary history as my experimental 'object'). As an „exercise in environmental speculation“, historian and geohumanist Jared Farmer created the „future fossil“ of a BlackBerry Curve 8300. In his reflection of the h...