Necrocene

Name

• Necrocene

Origin

• Coined by theorist Justin McBrien (2016) and artist-theorist Jill H. Casid (2019).

Definitions

• The Necrocene, related to the idea of the Capitalocene, is the idea that the current era is one defined by unsustainably high levels of death, destruction and extinction--levels which our current global systems require and accelerate in order to function.

• Necrocene is the slow emergence of the crisis of negative value accumulation and extinction. The Necrocene concept traces the relation between the material unfolding of extinction through capital and the history of its scientific inquiry.

See Also

Capitalocene, Futurisms, Anthropocene, Cthulucene