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Death Stranding and the Art of the Anthropocene

March 30, 2022June 4, 2022 Amber and Matthew

How do we even begin to make art about the end of the world? This essay presents a survey of artwork about the Anthropocene, accompanied by an examination of Death Stranding by way of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.

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