Harkema, Gert Jan2024-01-252024-01-252023https://necsus-ejms.org/of-sand-and-stone-thick-time-cyclicality-and-anthropocene-poetics-in-nomadland/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/22961This paper presents an ecocinematic reading of Chloé Zhao’s 2020 feature No- madland. Drawing on David Farrier’s notion of Anthropocene poetics, it argues that the film presents an image of ‘thick time’ through which human’s embeddedness in deep time is figured. Through a multilayered temporal entanglement with different cyclical processes of erosion and resurgence, a critique to capitalist exhaustive hy- percyclicity is formulated. Decentering ‘the human’, Nomadland invites a cinematic Anthropocenic thinking and imagining in which a critical nomadic subjectivity is fig- ured as a transcorporeal subject that is materially enmeshed both spatially and tem- porally with the physical world.engCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 GenericAnthropoceneecocinemahypercyclicitytranscorporealitygeology79110.25969/mediarep/217262213-0217