Transcending Boundaries: The Acousmatic Story in the Anthropocene

The multiple crises of the Anthropocene include a crisis in storytelling. Amitav Ghosh, for example, has claimed that not only is literary fiction incapable representing climate change, it also complicit its concealment broader culture (2016). Ghosh suggests increasing entwining image and text brought about by Internet could lead to hybridity form will free readers from unhelpful logocentrism recent times. While agreeing with him on both need new forms importance hybridity, we argue he overlooked power sound Drawing collaborative work-in-progress birdsong loss, propose acousmatic story as response challenges age an emerging understanding all stories are entangled vast mesh agencies, human other-than-human.