ABSTRACT
Whether named the Age of Crisis, the Anthropocene, or something else, the times in which we live are unprecedented: from the terrorist attacks of 9/11, to the near-collapse of the global financial system under the weight of risky mortgages that had been magically turned into low-risk securities, to the protests and revolutions of the Arab Spring, to an onslaught of extreme weather events causing massive destruction and loss of life from Russia to the Philippines to New York City, to what may be the first stages of the unraveling of the world's "deepest and broadest free trading zone" (HM Government, 2016) with the exit of Great Britain from the European Union, to the repeated and seemingly unprovoked killings of young American black men by police. Yeats might say about these times, "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
