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Text Matters<\/em><\/strong>\u2013Issue 12 <\/strong><\/p>\n

CALL FOR PAPERS for special issue of Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ecology as Modernity\u2019s New Horizon:<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Narratives of Progress, Regression and Apocalypse in the Anthropocene<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Editors:\u00a0<\/strong>Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet & Christian Arnsperger<\/p>\n

University of Lausanne, Switzerland<\/p>\n

agnieszka.soltysikmonnet@unil.ch<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0christian.arnsperger@unil.ch<\/a><\/p>\n

Deadline for submission of article proposal (max. 300 words): November 15, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deadline for editors\u2019 acceptance\/rejection of proposals: December 15, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deadline for submission of full articles (max. 5000 words) : July 1, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deadline for peer review and final acceptance\/rejection of articles: October 1, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deadline for submission of final versions of articles: December 1, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

As global warming and the current ecological crisis bring modern humans face to face with their finite planetary resources and their impacts on the biosphere, narratives of apocalypse and collapse proliferate in contemporary culture. \u201cLiving in the Anthropocene\u201d has become a rallying call for the advocates of urgency, while the overwhelming majority of political and corporate actors continue to fail to act.<\/p>\n

This issue of Text Matters\u00a0<\/em>would like to interrogate some of the issues of temporality raised by the ecological challenge.<\/p>\n

First of all, there is the injunction to act quickly. Initially it seemed that we had some time to shift the foundations of our way of life in order to ward off catastrophe, but now it appears that we have already waited too long and can, at best, only slow down the inevitable reaction chains that are coming.<\/p>\n

Secondly, environmental warnings have often predicted a sudden and violent climatic collapse in the future, triggered by a tipping point, but in fact we may be equally well be looking at a gradual climatic shift which has already begun and to which we are contemporaries.<\/p>\n

Thirdly, there are the more theoretical questions of apocalypse and progress\u2014seemingly opposed, and yet closely and uncannily interconnected within our theologically informed sense of history and teleology.<\/p>\n

Linked to the narrative of progress that has functioned as one of our dearest cultural myths are the notions of modernity and the Enlightenment as the necessary foundations for our existence. One of the main criticisms addressed to environmentalists who question progress is that their agenda implies regressing to some historically obsolete stage, i.e., that they seek to \u201ctake us back to the Stone Age,\u201d or that they are themselves na\u00efve and idealistic, like overgrown children or adolescents who should know better.<\/p>\n

Within this threefold complex of issues, the contributions to this volume will engage with the following clusters of questions:<\/p>\n