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This chapter analyses the depiction of space and time in the Southern Reach and Borne series in dialogue with various accounts of Earth history as well as object-oriented ontology, new materialist, and Indigenous notions of spacetime. It explores how Jeff VanderMeer disrupts the temporal linearity of capitalist progress and views time and space as concentric, fuzzy, and entangled with entities themselves. Engaging with the discourse on the Anthropocene, especially its focus on geology and deep time, the chapter examines how VanderMeer portrays the slow, attritional impacts of the ecological crisis and their uneven impacts upon human and nonhuman communities. These discussions provide a springboard for reflecting on how the novels reconceptualise the ontology of past, present, and future.

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The Passage of Hyperobjects: Another Look at Spatiotemporality

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    2025年

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This chapter analyses the depiction of space and time in the Southern Reach and Borne series in dialogue with various accounts of Earth history as well as object-oriented ontology, new materialist, and Indigenous notions of spacetime. It explores how Jeff VanderMeer disrupts the temporal linearity of capitalist progress and views time and space as concentric, fuzzy, and entangled with entities themselves. Engaging with the discourse on the Anthropocene, especially its focus on geology and deep time, the chapter examines how VanderMeer portrays the slow, attritional impacts of the ecological crisis and their uneven impacts upon human and nonhuman communities. These discussions provide a springboard for reflecting on how the novels reconceptualise the ontology of past, present, and future.