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Back to the Garden: New Visions of Posthuman Futures

2011; Penn State University Press; Volume: 22; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/utp.2011.0027

2154-9648

Mark Stephen Jendrysik,

Religion, Ecology, and Ethics

This article examines the contemporary phenomenon of imagining a world from which people have been removed. Such a trend speaks to a utopian impulse, but one that is not comparable to traditional utopian ideas. What does the popularity of books like The World without Us or documentaries such as The Future is Wild, Aftermath: Population Zero, and Life after People say about the current status of utopian ideals, environmental thought, and our cultural understanding of humanity's place in the nature order?