Overview: After a massive wave of disappearances, twenty-six-year-old CIA analyst, Everett Carroll, finally believes what he’s been told about the biblical prophecy of the rapture. Theoretical and philosophical approaches to what has now come to be called the age of the Anthropocene- the (geological) epoch in which human activity has a significant and likely irreversible global impact-have therefore attempted with increasing urgency to redefine how we as human subjects conceptualize the entities and environments surrounding us. Apocalypse by Mark Goodwin (The Days of Elijah 1) Requirements. It presents us with the double-bind of advocating ethical responsibility toward our environment while simultaneously recognizing (in many ways because we recognize) the relative insignificance and contingency of the anthropological in the grander scheme of things.
I ntellectualizing in an era of impending ecological catastrophe means thinking the unthinkable-or at least imagining ourselves capable of such. Putting pressure on the consonances and disso-nances between these concepts will reveal an implicit attempt to make of Odradek an idiom capable of conceptualizing the forces of a climate change exceeding current modes of thought.
Hillis Miller's theory of the ecotechnological. This article interrogates the uses and abuses of Franz Kafka's enigmatic figure Odradek as an illustration for three recent approaches in the environmental humanities: Timothy Morton's notion of the hyperobject, Jane Bennett's vital materialism, and J.
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