Death by Landscape by Elvia Wilk

Death by Landscape by Elvia Wilk

From the acclaimed author of the novel Oval comes a book of "fan nonfiction" about living and writing in the age of extinction

In this constellation of essays, Elvia Wilk asks what kinds of narratives will help us rethink our human perspective toward Earth. The book begins as an exploration of the role of fiction today and becomes a deep interrogation of the writing process and the self.

Wilk examines creative works across time and genre in order to break down binaries between dystopia and utopia, real and imagined, self and world. She makes connections between works by such wide-ranging writers as Mark Fisher, Karen Russell, Han Kang, Doris Lessing, Anne Carson, Octavia E. Butler, Michelle Tea, Helen Phillips, Kathe Koja, Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, and Hildegard von Bingen.

What happens when research becomes personal, when the observer breaks through the glass? Through the eye of the fan, this collection delves into literal and literary world-building projects-medieval monasteries, solarpunk futures, vampire role plays, environments devoid of humans-bridging the micro and the macro and revealing how our relationship to narrative shapes our relationships to the natural world and to one another.

Wilk, Elvia: - Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York and Berlin. She writes about art, architecture, and technology for several publications, including frieze, Artforum, e-flux, Metropolis, Mousse, Flash Art, Art in America, and Zeit Online.

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ISBN 13	9781593767150
ISBN 10	1593767153
Title	Death by Landscape
Author	Elvia Wilk
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Soft Skull Press
Year published	2022-07-19
Number of pages	320
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