Nature at Its Limits (Ecocide). Subjectivity After the Catastrophe
Nature at Its Limits (Ecocide). Subjectivity After the Catastrophe

Summary/Abstract: The author traces the analogy and intersections between holocaust and genocide studies and the ecocriticism, between the event of the genocide and ecocide (the devastation of the natural environment). Based on the discussion of books and articles by G. Agamben, J. Derrida, B. Latour the author offers a thesis on the shaping of a new concept of nonanthropocentric subjectivity, “empathic subject” or a subject existing in the pluriversum. The second part of the article is devoted to the analysis of literary (E. Kuryluk, W.G. Sebald) and visual (J. Morgenstern’s “Ambulans”) representations, pointing to the role of non-human factors in the post-catastrophic landscape.

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