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The article traces how anthropogenic climate change is often framed in the cultural imagination of the West as a phenomenon that will activate an animistic nature world. Through the medium of contemporary Western climate fiction (cli-fi) the article first shows how anthropogenic climate change is fictively configured as a phenomenon that triggers disasters that manifest themselves as the revenge of an intervening nature world. Intertwined by the thesis that these configurations point to a psychological desperation in a world in imminent need of an intervention that steer it away from impending ecological collapse the second part of the article focuses on contemporary philosophy and the work of Michel Serres and Bruno Latour. As especially Latourâs work is put through close reading the philosophies of both these thinkers are seen as another site, where the return of animism in contemporary disaster imagination reveals itself. This finally leads to a reflection on how anthropogenic climate change is intimately intertwined to a repertoire of cognitive schemes functioning as the narrative templates, through which this phenomenon is culturally imagined

Antropocæn og automatiseringen af adfærd: En kritik af det liberale Danmarks teknologioptimisme

This article critically describes the connection between digital and geophysical developments. In its first part it uses Felix Guattari’s notion of ‘planetary computerization’ to show how the global spreading of the personal computer should be understood as a deterritorialization of capitalist power, which accelerates global warming and the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems. In particular, it analytically unfolds how the global spreading of the personal computer advances an automatization of behavior, which leads to ‘auto-destructive’ consumerism. In the second and third part the article turns to Danish politics and the techno-optimism, which guided the two liberal governments, who ruled Denmark from June 2015 to June 2019. The article argues that these two governments embraced the prospect of accelerating automatization without taking into account how such an acceleration is highly likely to further increase the geophysical problems of the Anthropocene and produce increased inequality