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What on World is the Earth?: The Anthropocene and Fictions of the World

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Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

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This paper develops a concept of the terrestrial as an abyssal boundary to the thinkable, looking to David Wood's deconstructive eco-phenomenology. The main section deploys this concept of the terrestrial to read various accounts and images of the sight of the whole earth from space. This then suggests a reading of Derrida's arguments on the ‘fiction of the world’. This material is framed at both ends of the paper by consideration of the “Anthropocene” as an ‘event’ which seems to exceed or query elements of Derrida's definition of the ‘event’.

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