Space out of joint: absurdist geographies of the Anthropocene

This paper seeks to demonstrate the critical utility of concept absurd in exploration combined and uneven apocalypse known as Anthropocene. Drawing inspiration from absurdist literature, based on extensive field research, it takes form a psychogeographical journey down non-existent highway Peruvian Amazon. The route this long-promised megaproject is inhabited by people adrift midst meaningless ruins, haunted spectral infrastructures that were promised but never came, plagued monstrous apparitions extractive violence. Consistent with method, resists temptation leap out disconcerting domain into normalizing rituals academic sensemaking, aims instead grasp convey disorienting lived experience ‘space joint’. In doing so, suggests an sensibility can contribute current debates cultural geography spectrality, psychogeography, creative writing, through its emphasis irrationality indeterminacy, chaotic disintegrating spaces, evocation fragmentation disjuncture jagged shards stark vivid prose.