Fractured Spheres, Entangled Worlds: Reimagining the Anglosphere in the Age of Permacrisis

The essay approaches the Anglosphere as a contested discursive formation, whose unity has been sustained by imperial imaginaries and ideological narratives of civilizational continuity. The metaphor rests on historical abstractions obscuring internal differentiation and uneven entanglements, which becomes especially visible in the condition of permacrisis, with its chronic convergence of environmental, political and technological instabilities resistant to teleological resolution. We reflect on the unsettling of these inherited assumptions adopting an archipelagic, relational framework. The case studies expose fractures shaped by colonial extraction, racial capitalism, ecological precarity and uneven vulnerability across multiple scales. Crisis emerges as a relational process reshaping subjectivities, institutions, and narrative forms across time and space. The essay identifies transformations in the episteme of crisis, from rupture to a condition of saturation and chronic exposure to relational adjustment. Addressing contemporary fiction, we demonstrate how narrative form evolves to register and negotiate chronic instability.