ENGL 6040: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts Keynote (SP22)
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what remains<br />
“<br />
I prefer to think <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> “Anthropocenes” as<br />
irreducibly multiple rather than <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> a singular<br />
“Anthropocene.” We can remember the<br />
sustainable Anthropocene <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> peasant chestnut<br />
cultivati<strong>on</strong> over the last fifteen hundred years or<br />
the less hopeful Anthropocene <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> chestnut<br />
aband<strong>on</strong>ment in the wake <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> industrializati<strong>on</strong> and<br />
globalizati<strong>on</strong> over the last two hundred. Both are<br />
Anthropocenes (Matthews G154).<br />
Evan McGlinn for The New York Times<br />
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