Article: Of sand and stone: Thick time, cyclicality, and Anthropocene poetics in ‘Nomadland’
Abstract
This paper presents an ecocinematic reading of Chloé Zhao’s 2020 feature No- madland. Drawing on David Farrier’s notion of Anthropocene poetics, it argues that the film presents an image of ‘thick time’ through which human’s embeddedness in deep time is figured. Through a multilayered temporal entanglement with different cyclical processes of erosion and resurgence, a critique to capitalist exhaustive hy- percyclicity is formulated. Decentering ‘the human’, Nomadland invites a cinematic Anthropocenic thinking and imagining in which a critical nomadic subjectivity is fig- ured as a transcorporeal subject that is materially enmeshed both spatially and tem- porally with the physical world.
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Harkema, Gert Jan: Of sand and stone: Thick time, cyclicality, and Anthropocene poetics in ‘Nomadland’. In: NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 12 (2023), Nr. 2, S. 34-60. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21726.
@ARTICLE{Harkema2023,
author = {Harkema, Gert Jan},
title = {Of sand and stone: Thick time, cyclicality, and Anthropocene poetics in ‘Nomadland’},
year = 2023,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21726}",
volume = 12,
address = {Marburg},
journal = {NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies},
number = 2,
pages = {34--60},
}
author = {Harkema, Gert Jan},
title = {Of sand and stone: Thick time, cyclicality, and Anthropocene poetics in ‘Nomadland’},
year = 2023,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21726}",
volume = 12,
address = {Marburg},
journal = {NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies},
number = 2,
pages = {34--60},
}
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