Went to a reading group. The article under discussion was Jason “Capitalism in the Web of Life” Moore’s 2014 article on the End of Cheap Nature..
It got a bit of a kicking from a couple of people (me, I thought it was okay).
The convenor of the group introduced the paper and pointed out that the LRB reviewer of Moore’s book had mentioned that Anthropocene had replaced “post-modernism” as the (my words) object of longing/trendy term to spray onto pre-existing research proposals for self-styled intellectuals (aka academics).
[The actual quote is – “What was once true about the now passé term ‘postmodernism’ is true for the Anthropocene today: it names an effort to consider the contemporary world historically, in an age that otherwise struggles with its attention span.”]
And it occurred to me that somebody (not me) should put together a spoof/pastiche with the title of this blog post. Substitute a big COP for the Bonaventure Hotel and the lost-ness it evokes and provokes. Substitute pictures of “nature” and Disneyfied nature for the Van Gogh/Warhol shoes, and bish bosh, you’re there. Academic careers have probably been built on thinner mash-ups.
And as an added bonus you can justifiably cite that line about it being easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism
marchudson.net 
“later than you think capitalism” love it.
There is a nice line from Aussie Helen Razer: “It is easier for us to imagine plagues of zombies, alien invasion or utter nuclear devastation than it is to imagine the end of capitalism”