ENG237H5 Lecture Notes - The Windup Girl, Hubris, Utopia
Document Summary
The past still has a role and presence in the future. There is almost a bit of retrograde technology. Global trade is just beginning to pick up again, their lack of quick and efficient transportation. The world is also radically different from our own geopolitically: primarily because of the environmental catastrophes that have made this world turn back the clock on technology. Recent history: old expansion --> contraction --> new expansion: old expansion = our world. Viewed as a time of excess characterised by waste and profit, there"s a disregard for the consequences that actions create. Anderson talks about the "foolish confidence of the past: contraction = time of environmental crisis, new expansion = slow progression forward. Things are starting to change particularly in global trade. The constant reminder of the old expansion displays that the present is a building up of the past.
