Unveiling Truths Amid Chaos: Ed Simon’s Radical Take on Writing in the Apocalypse
Simon is a professor, used to writing scholarly works. He explains that this book is not scholarly, it’s more creative or narrative nonfiction, because he writes from his own experience. However, he cites books and papers alongside his thoughts and ideas, many of which I was tempted to go down the rabbit hole and read (see, for example, Timothy Clark’s Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept). (For those unfamiliar, ‘Anthropocene’ is used to simply describe the time during which humans have had a substantial impact on our planet.) He is also clear that he is a middle-aged white man writing about a Western apocalypse, and that others in different countries and of differing ethnicities have weathered their own apocalypses or are just seeing them now. All that said, Simon uses a remarkable breadth of research: history, technology, climate change, health, to dig deeply into why it’s important to write during the apocalypse.
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