ASLE 2027 Panel CFP: Uncanny Nature, Uncharted Territory
Responding to the theoretical debate surrounding the Anthropocene, arts and humanities have urged on an update on the perception, conception, and representation – the “aesthetics” – of nature in its non- and inhumanity. In particular, the uncanny has emerged as one productive category for ecocriticism and environmental humanities to think through human-nature entanglements. With its notoriously ambiguous genealogy from Ernst Jentsch (1906) through Sigmund Freud (1919) to its various postmodern de- and reconstruction (Cixous, Bhabha, Vidler), the uncanny draws from the threshold of …
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