Grotesque Anthropocene

Erik Erlanson is associate senior lecturer at the Department of Film and Literature at Linnaeus University and a member of the Linnaeus Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies.Nicolai Skiveren is a postdoctoral research fellow at the New Zealand Centre for Human Animal Studies (NZCHAS) at Canterbury University, New Zealand. Jacob Wamberg is an independent scholar and former professor of art history at Aarhus University.

• Chapter 1: introduction Grotesque Anthropocene.- Chapter 2: From Hyperabject to Entropy.- Chapter 3: Tampering with the normativity of life: Pierre Klossowski’s Living Currency and the politics of the environmental grotesque.- Chapter 4: Grotesque bodies in ruined worlds: intermedial experimentalism in Rita Indiana’s environmental grotesque.- Chapter 5: An Estranged, Borderless, Mad, and Lively World: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Grotesque Vision of the Scandinavian Anthropocene.- Chapter 6: Eat Me. Cannibalism and Regeneration in Lina Rydén Reynols’s Använd dem som du vill.- Chapter 7: Sister, What Grows Where Land is Sick? a Case Study of the Eco-Critical and Environmental Grotesque in Cinema.- Chapter 8: Carnival in the Anthropocene: Nordic Eco-Comedy and Grotesque Environmental Humor.- Chapter 9: The botanical grotesque Interspecies care, power, and vegetal mythologies in contemporary Scandinavian art.-Chapter 10:How the Environmental Grotesque Works Testing Its Impact Experimentally.