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An Anthropocene Viewing Condition

Author(s) -

Jennifer Lynn Peterson

Publication year - 2022

Publication title -

representations

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.162

H-Index - 33

eISSN - 1533-855X

pISSN - 0734-6018

DOI - 10.1525/rep.2022.157.2.17

Subject(s) - anthropocene , history , aesthetics , feeling , glacier , natural (archaeology) , environmental ethics , geography , art , archaeology , epistemology , philosophy , physical geography

This essay explores what I call an Anthropocene viewing condition, a contemporary spectator position in which images of nature, particularly moving images of natures past, resonate with present and future environmental loss. Analyzing natural disaster melodramas such as The Trail of ’98 (1928) and Deluge (1933) alongside popular science films about glaciers from the 1920s, I explore endangerment as both an explicit and latent structure of feeling in the Anthropocene.

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