![]() ![]() ![]() Swift's novel about three women who in different centuries observe the unspoiled beauty and the decline and fall of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. One solution is to distribute the story amongst multiple characters scattered across time, a technique used to fine effect in E.J. Although we can see evidence for their existence, the totality of these hyperobjects is much harder - if not impossible - to comprehend, and attempting to depict them from the default close third person point-of-view presents obvious difficulties for the novelist. ![]() The philosopher Timothy Horton described global heating, climate change species loss and all the other upheavals of the Anthropocene, as hyperobjects 'massively distributed in space and time relative to humans'. ![]()
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