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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lynn Badia , Marija Cetinić , Jeff DiamantiPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.263kg ISBN: 9781138370043ISBN 10: 1138370045 Pages: 162 Publication Date: 29 December 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPart 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 AnthropoceneReviewsAuthor InformationLynn 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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