David Farrier

Senior Lecturer , University of Edinburgh

David Farrier is a senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Edinburgh, where he also leads an Environmental Humanities research network. He is currently working on a book about the ways we are imprinting traces of ourselves on the deep future.

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Written by David Farrier

A decomposed bird on the ground with plastic debris visible in its body, highlighting environmental pollution.

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Sands of time

The North Sea is rich in signs of what made the modern world. It’s also a monument to what awaits us in the Anthropocene

David Farrier

Abandoned tower blocks in a forested area, with overgrown trees and vegetation surrounding the structures.

ideaStories and literature

Deep time’s uncanny future is full of ghostly human traces

David Farrier