"Dead as a Dodo": Anthropocene Extinction in the Early Modern World. Issue 1 (March 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ray, Sugata
• Is Part Of: TDR. Volume 67:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 126
• Page End: 135
• Publication Date: 2023-03
• Subjects: Theater -- Periodicals; Theater -- Political aspects -- Periodicals; Theater and society -- Periodicals; Experimental theater -- Periodicals; Théâtre -- Périodiques; Experimental theater; Theater; Theater and society; Theater -- Political aspects; Aspect politique; Aspect social; Société; Théâtre (Spectacle); Théâtre expérimental; Periodicals; 792.05
• DOI: 10.1017/S1054204322000843
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1365-7518

Abstract

Abstract : Among the species that went extinct in the last 500 plus years under colonial regimes, the ill-fated dodo became an early icon of the Anthropocene Extinction. While much has been written on the biotechnological apparatuses that expedited the extinction of the dodo, it was the complicity of Western European imperialism and early modern aesthetic regimes that were responsible for the ecocide of the Anthropocene (read Eurocene) Extinction.