The Geologic Era of the Human
What:
Academic
When:
11:00, Sunday 2 Aug 2020 NZST
(50 minutes)
Where:
Programming -
Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Tags:
Academic
Discussion:
0
Prema Arasu
Sleeping with the Fishmen: Reimagining the Anthropocene through Oceanic Chthonic Couplings
This paper imagines the romantic and sexual coupling of the monstrous and human in fantasy and myth as a a model for understanding and navigating the Anthropocene.
Sharon King
Agents of Their Own Distraction: The Capitalocene Real(i)ty of The Santa Clarita Diet
The Santa Clarita Diet's fantastical horror showcases the rapacious dilemma of the Capitalocene era ("accumulation for accumulation's sake") in postmodern comic zombie guise.
Panelist
University of Western Australia
PhD candidate and emerging writer (prema.arasu@research.uwa.edu.au)