The Climate of <i>Orlando</i>: Woolf, Braidotti and the Anthropocene

This essay brings Rosi Braidotti’s recent writing on the Anthropocene into dialogue with Woolf’s climate in her novel Orlando (1928). As critics are beginning to notice, presents reader vicissitudes ‘the English climate’ that parallel Orlando’s own personal transformations, presenting itself as an early outlier of fiction (‘cli-fi’). Less remarked upon is radical understanding materialism informs presentation interrelation between human life and broader nonhuman entities systems. article reads material ontology, which humans, weather systems environments irreversibly entangled, alongside ‘monistic approach subjectivity’, arguing both we find a similar attempt articulate non-anthropocentric worldview nonetheless remains alert political ethical issues within society. Showing how Woolf actively historicizes Orlando, I contend not only can work help materialism, but attention sexual politics change provides depth posthuman feminism.