disanthropic

comparative more disanthropic · superlative most disanthropic

1. literary criticismOf or pertaining to disanthropy; desiring a world without human life, or pertaining to such a world, as expressed in literature.First known use 2012

   In contemporary ecological mobilizations of the weird, by contrast, we observe a tendency to celebrate the weird as a feature of a disanthropic world—a world in which human agency has been absorbed by nonhuman forces.

   2019, Kahn Faassen, Pieter Vermeulen, “The Weird and the Ineluctable Human”, in Collateral, number 15

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   There is, again, a peculiar beauty in the disanthropic moment. Of course, people are only temporarily absent—decentred from the narrative focus by war, rumbling just over the horizon—and by no means irredeemably banished.

   2012, Greg Garrard, “Worlds Without Us: Some Types of Disanthropy”, in Ranjan Ghosh, editor, SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism: Issue 127: Globing the Earth: The New Eco-logics of Nature, volume 41, number 1, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 41