Geotrauma

To contemplate these icy, inevitable vistas of cosmic time is in a certain sense already to go beyond geotrauma.

To understand the role von Trier's Melancholia plays in materializing the Anthropocene and its geotraumas necessitates briefly laying out my assumptions about cinematic technology.

This contextual outside might be called the geotrauma of the Anthropocene's realization—a geotrauma where flesh is the medium of exchange that organizes and modifies the Spike.

But what these critiques do not grasp is that the Enlightenment vision of a nature/culture divide was created not to isolate and control nature, but to protect the concept of the human from the 'geotraumas' of deep time and of the cosmological forces that have formed and assailed the earth during those long pre-human ages.