In this essay, I argue that the novel Dissipatio H.G. is constructed as a (geological) crime scene in which the protagonist and the reader participate in a forensic analysis of the world without us. In this context, the narrating subject survives in order to be the ultimate witness, the last human that can attest to the ecological crimes of mankind and who willingly accepts extinction as punishment for the entire species. I believe that this deep-time archeological investigation foreshadows the forensic logic of the Anthropocene (Weizman 2017; Yusoff 2016; 2018; Demos 2019; Luisetti 2020) and allows us to read Morselli's final work as one of the origin stories of the Anthropocenic paradigm.
Investigating the Extinction Crime Scene: Guido Morselli's Eco-political Manifesto and the Forensic Gaze of the Anthropocene
Emiliano Guaraldo
2022-01-01
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In this essay, I argue that the novel Dissipatio H.G. is constructed as a (geological) crime scene in which the protagonist and the reader participate in a forensic analysis of the world without us. In this context, the narrating subject survives in order to be the ultimate witness, the last human that can attest to the ecological crimes of mankind and who willingly accepts extinction as punishment for the entire species. I believe that this deep-time archeological investigation foreshadows the forensic logic of the Anthropocene (Weizman 2017; Yusoff 2016; 2018; Demos 2019; Luisetti 2020) and allows us to read Morselli's final work as one of the origin stories of the Anthropocenic paradigm.
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