Disanthropy

[pages 40–41] D. H. Lawrence, enthused and infuriated by [Friedrich] Nietzsche, entrusted to his alter ego Birkin in Women in Love a desire that I will call "disanthropy": […] Lawrence may have yearned for a world without people, but it was Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse that first explored disanthropy as a formal problem. […] [page 44] Alongside the varied disanthropies of Michael Snow, Werner Herzog, Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou, however, other possibilities of formal (usually partial or strictly provisional) impersonality emerge: […]

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Disanthropy is the imagination of the world without humans, inspired by the resurgence of millennial Christianity in the eighteenth century and the discovery of 'deep time' following the publication of [Charles] Lyell's Principles of Geology[…].

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Disanthropy constitutes a formal challenge, as most literary and artistic forms and genres imply a human voice, character, or perspective, which complicates the representation of (often far future) worlds without us.

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