Novel Habitats in the Anthroprocene Pt. IV "A Stanford University team has boldly proposed that – living as we are through the last years of one Earth epoch, and the birth of another – we belong to “Generation Anthropocene”. Literature and art are confronted with particular challenges by the idea of the Anthropocene. Old forms of representation are experiencing drastic new pressures and being tasked with daunting new responsibilities. How might a novel or a poem possibly account for our authorship of global-scale environmental change across millennia – let alone shape the nature of that change? The indifferent scale of the Anthropocene can induce a crushing sense of the cultural sphere’s impotence... ...The novel is the cultural form to which the Anthropocene arguably presents most difficulties, and most opportunities. Historically, the novel has been celebrated for its ability to represent human interiority: the skull-to-skull skip of free indirect style, or the vivid flow of stream-of-consciousness. But what use are such skills when addressing the enormity of this new epoch? Any Anthropocene-aware novel finds itself haunted by impersonal structures, and intimidated by the limits of individual agency." http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/01/generation-anthropocene-altered-planet-for-ever #generationanthrocopene #novelhabitats #novelety #art #instaart #instaartist #guitar #appalachia #riff #guitarist #musician #instaguitar #southernartists #novelhabitat #appalachia #southcarolina #novelecosystems #anthrocopene</p>