geotrauma

English

Etymology

geo- +‎ trauma

Noun

geotrauma (countable and uncountable, plural geotraumas)

1. The marks and scars left on earth and its geological record, especially those generated by human activity in the Anthropocene (such as resource depletion, the effects of pollution, etc).
   • 2012, Ed Keller, Eugene Thacker, Nicola Masciandaro, Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium, page 31:

     To contemplate these icy, inevitable vistas of cosmic time is in a certain sense already to go beyond geotrauma.

   • 2014, Dennis M. Weiss, Amy D. Propen, Colbey Emmerson Reid, Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman, page 251:

     To understand the role von Trier's Melancholia plays in materializing the Anthropocene and its geotraumas necessitates briefly laying out my assumptions about cinematic technology.

   • 2018, Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None:

     This contextual outside might be called the geotrauma of the Anthropocene's realization—a geotrauma where flesh is the medium of exchange that organizes and modifies the Spike.

   • 2018, Nigel Rapport, Huon Wardle, An Anthropology of the Enlightenment:

     But what these critiques do not grasp is that the Enlightenment vision of a nature/culture divide was created not to isolate and control nature, but to protect the concept of the human from the 'geotraumas' of deep time and of the cosmological forces that have formed and assailed the earth during those long pre-human ages.

Derived terms

• geotraumatic