The Dark Ecology of <i>Naked Lunch</i>
In this article, I argue that William S. Burroughs’ novel <i>Naked Lunch</i> engages in a “perverse aesthetics” that is analogous to Timothy Morton’s theory of dark ecology. The novel’s main themes of consumption and control are directly related to the Anthropocene’s twin disasters of gl...
Main Author: | George Hart |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
MDPI AG
2020-10-01
|
Series: | Humanities |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/4/130 |
Similar Items
-
On the Genealogy of Obscenity: Naked Lunch and The Death of Obscene Literature
by: Harrison, Luke
Published: (2014) -
‘The Way OUT is the Way IN’: Junk and the Subversion of the Nation/Symptom in William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch
by: Brodie Beales
Published: (2008-11-01) -
Baboons, Centipedes, and Lemurs: Becoming-Animal from <i>Queer</i> to <i>Ghost of Chance</i>
by: Alexander Greiffenstern
Published: (2021-03-01) -
“Visibility is a Trap” : Revealing the Metaphor of the Simian in Naked Lunch.
by: Borduz, Monika
Published: (2015) -
The Light of the Leaf: A Theological Critique of Timothy Morton’s ‘Dark Ecology’
by: Ryan Haecker
Published: (2021-09-01)