Climate Realism

The Aesthetics of Weather and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-138-37004-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 275 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in the Anthropocene

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Badia, Lynn

Cetini¿, Marija

Cetinic, Marija

Diamanti, Jeff

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).