Fictional Attachments and Literary Weavings in the Anthropocene

Literary studies can find inspiration in Bruno Latour’s 2013 book An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence insofar as it helps them map and locate where and how they can contribute to the debates that will shape our necessary turning away from the suicidal path of capitalist ecocide. In return, AIME can find in literary studies a field of research that will help it overcome its current attention deficit toward the issues of media agency. Along the way, we will discover that the humanities may indeed be the most dangerous and reactionary of all disciplines, unknowingly siding with our most intimate enemy in the anthropocenic war (“the humans”). The time has come to evolve from the Humanities to the Medianities!