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Climate Realism

The Aesthetics of Weather and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene
Buch | Softcover
162 Seiten
2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-37004-3 (ISBN)
CHF 64,55 inkl. MwSt
This book sets forth a new research agenda for climate theory and aesthetics for the age of the Anthropocene. It explores the challenge of representing and conceptualizing climate in the era of climate change.

In the Anthropocene when geologic conditions and processes are primarily shaped by human activity, climate indicates not only atmospheric forces but the gamut of human activity that shape these forces. It includes the fuels we use, the lifestyles we cultivate, the industrial infrastructures and supply chains we build, and together these point to the possible futures we may encounter. This book demonstrates how every weather event constitutes the climatic forces that are as much social, cultural, and economic as they are environmental, natural, and physical. By foregrounding this fundamental insight, it intervenes in the well-established political and scientific discourses of climate change by identifying and exploring emergent aesthetic practices and the conceptual project of mediating the various forces embedded in climate.

This book is the first to sustain a theoretical and analytical engagement with the category of realism in the context of anthropogenic climate change, to capture climate’s capacity to express embedded histories, and to map the formal strategies of representation that have turned climate into cultural content.

Lynn Badia is an Assistant Professor of English at Colorado State University, where she specializes in environmental and energy humanities. Marija Cetinicì is Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and a research affiliate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). Jeff Diamanti is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Amsterdam (Literary and Cultural Analysis & Philosophy).

Part 1. The Climate of Representation 1. Ecological Postures for a Climate Realism 2. Anthropocene Arts: Apocalyptic Realism and the Post-Oil Imaginary in the Niger Delta 3. Fire, Water, Moon: Supplemental Seasons in a Time without Season Part 2. The Subject of Climate 4. Indigenous Realism and Climate Change 5. Realism’s Phantom Subjects 6. Geologic Realism: On the Beach of Geologic Time Part 3. Realism and the Critique of Climate, or Climate and the Critique of Realism 7. The Poetics of Geopower: Climate Change and the Politics of Representation 8. Perplexing Realities: Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Research in the Anthropocene
Zusatzinfo 13 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 263 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10 1-138-37004-5 / 1138370045
ISBN-13 978-1-138-37004-3 / 9781138370043
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