The Anthropocene Roundtable

Join Abdelrahman ElGendy, TMR Literary Editor, and special guests on Thursday, September 17, at 1 pm EDT / 6 pm UK / 7 pm CET for a deep-dive roundtable as we pull back the curtain on our latest issue.
What does the Anthropocene framework render invisible? Whose apocalypse has been packaged as the “future”? What does a militant ecology make possible? Can art unlearn the logic of extraction? Across these works, land remembers; animals disappear and return; seeds evade the archive; water carries traces of violence; bodies, ruins, and elements hold what history tries to erase and revolt as freedom fighters. Again and again, these pieces ask us to attend to what it means to understand that “land, like language, is inherited.”
We invite you to sit with the haunting pieces in this issue, think alongside them, and join us for a soon-to-be-announced roundtable discussion, where I’ll be in conversation with several of our contributors. Let us, together, consider how we move from here toward the serious work of worldmaking.
This online event is free but advance registration is required.