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- Title
ENVIRONMENTALIST ISSUES IN ZAZEN: INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE CONTAMINATION OF VESELKA'S YSTOPIAN.
- Authors
SRCEVA-PAVLOVSKA, TATJANA; VORONCHENKO, TATIANA; FYODOROVA, EKATERINA
- Abstract
Environmentalism, as a major concern and activism within the framework of ecomodernism, seems to advocate, among other things, in favour of pursuing technological solutions to modern day challenges, embracing innovation, entrepreneurship, and geoengineering. Since we are living in an era of irreversible environmental modification, the ecomodernity, apart from being a period defined by social disruption and hitech 'explosion', it can also be demarcated as well in terms of anthropocentric climate change, a period during which human activity has been the dominant and the dominated in terms of its influence on climate and the environment. This paper focuses on Vanesa Veselka's presentation on different aspects of environmentalist issues in her dystopian novel Zazen, ranging from the problems of the internal polluted-self, the mental, individual contaminations vis-a-vis more general, political, collective pollution of the environment and humankind, which, seeming to lack any kind of life's meaning or purpose, borderlines with chaos, rebellion, and desire for escapism. Veselka's dystopian world, partially skeptical of the technological innovations which are rapidly changing the structural milieu of its inhabitants, takes carbon combustion, bomb explosions and climate change for granted, not being able to perceive the social losses generated exactly by these new hitech and communication 'eruptions', in which cases, the narrative balloons the dystopian narratives that generally describe societies in cataclysmic decline, and focuses on a character who battles environmental ruin, technological control, and government oppression, and above all, one's contaminated-self.
- Subjects
TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; ENVIRONMENTALISTS; ENVIRONMENTALISM; CLIMATE change; ENVIRONMENTAL engineering; ACTIVISM
- Publication
Vizione, 2022, Issue 39, p321
- ISSN
1409-8962
- Publication type
Article