![]() ![]() The analysis concludes with a discussion of the social infrastructure underlying the circulation of objects and subjects, highlighting the novel’s emphasis on the community-building as well as resource-depleting dimensions of our petromodernity. Turning from objects to subjects, the paper subsequently enlists Roland Barthes’s late work on reference to describe Lerner’s attention to weird weather and its destabilising effects on our bodies and epiphanies. ![]() In response to Adam Trexler’s account of Anthropocene fiction, it begins by examining Lerner’s expansive representation of global commodities and planetary memorials. This paper examines three aspects of the book’s environmentally inflected realism in more detail. A rare example of a contemporary climate-change novel, Ben Lerner’s 10:04 joins reflections on our increasingly unrecognisable planet with a remarkably realist attention to everyday life. ![]()
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