TY - JOUR
T1 - Hypercritique
T2 - a sequence of dreams for the Anthropocene
AU - Sledmere, Maria
PY - 2021/1/25
Y1 - 2021/1/25
N2 - [What sort of coming belongs to a dream? Existing suspended, to come, now, is to place impossible faith in the possible: that passion for “something” which answers as closure, fulfilment, echo, return. The conditional tense, “to have given us to believe”, as though this were the very text we were each receiving. And I call you from dreams like the siren, and I am more of each line, the outwards spread which you circle to end, ellipsis, still typing, which you centre but do not settle. The anthropocene, this hypothetical epoch of the lived, the literal extinction, asks us (and could it) to see ourselves coming as pure expenditure, general economy, the discharge of species ... ]
AB - [What sort of coming belongs to a dream? Existing suspended, to come, now, is to place impossible faith in the possible: that passion for “something” which answers as closure, fulfilment, echo, return. The conditional tense, “to have given us to believe”, as though this were the very text we were each receiving. And I call you from dreams like the siren, and I am more of each line, the outwards spread which you circle to end, ellipsis, still typing, which you centre but do not settle. The anthropocene, this hypothetical epoch of the lived, the literal extinction, asks us (and could it) to see ourselves coming as pure expenditure, general economy, the discharge of species ... ]
KW - Impossibility
KW - Anthropocene
KW - Poetry
KW - Dreams
KW - Pop music
KW - Ecocriticism
UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-737006
UR - https://coilsoftheserpent.org/
M3 - Article
SN - 2510-3059
SP - 54
EP - 79
JO - Coils of the Serpent
JF - Coils of the Serpent
IS - 8
ER -