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Journal Article
Welcome to the Post-Anthropolis: Urban Space and Climate Change in Nathaniel Rich's Odds Against Tomorrow, Lev Rosen's Depth, and Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140
2020
Overview
Three recent climate fictions set in New York City—Nathaniel Rich's Odds
Against Tomorrow (2013), Lev Rosen's Depth (2015),
and Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 (2017)—reimagine urban
space in climate crisis. Reflecting contemporary concerns, Rich, Rosen, and
Robinson represent Manhattan in novel ways: as an ecosystem and a multi-species
habitat. This imaginary city reaches deep into the bedrock and expands into (and
beyond) the New York Bight to reveal a vaster, unfamiliar, less human-centered
eco-polis. Although the novels depart from anthropocentric traditions of urban
representation, their portrayals of the relationship between the city and its
environment recall Romantic and colonial tropes (the aesthetization of “nature”
as an autonomous realm, the romance of wilderness, the erasure of Native
histories). These fictions highlight the challenge of forging new spatial
imaginaries for the Anthropocene.
