These seem to be indicative of a shift of paradigm in “culture”, too, the domain we once took to be solely of our own wilful making. The resulting global scare has already led to huge changes in our habitual ways of working, producing, studying, making art, socializing, and travelling. The latest pandemic has reminded us once again, that “people are entangled in co-constitutive relationships with nature and the environment, with other animals and organisms, with medicine and technology, with science and epistemic politics.” 1 To think of a virus originating in an animal body that can infect millions of human beings simply because it is capable of traversing corporeal boundaries between the human and the non-human animal. As environmental crises grow increasingly more threatening for human and non-human life on our planet, the need to ask new questions pertaining to the ways we think about the interconnections between those concepts becomes pressuring. Verbal or visual, most representations are, after all, about human beings and their relation to the physical and social environment. “Human”, “nature”, and “environment” continue to occupy their privileged place among the inexhaustible themes in literary and cultural representations.
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