Mark Bould

The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene — the term given to this geological epoch in which humans, anthropos, are wreaking havoc on the earth — is to be found bubbling away everywhere in contemporary cultural production. Typically, discussions of how culture registers, figures and mediates climate...

Despite being one of Andrei Tarkovsky's most successful films, Solaris (1972) was the one he most disliked. This dismissal of his most generically marked film has often been accepted by those quick to embrace the image of Tarkovsky as a transcendent artist rising above the politics of the Soviet film industry and the trappings of genre to produce personal works...