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Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene book cover

1st Edition

Climate Realism The Aesthetics of Weather and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene

Edited By Lynn Badia, Marija Cetinić, Jeff Diamanti Copyright 2021
172 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

172 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

172 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Part 1. The Climate of Representation

1. Ecological Postures for a Climate Realism

Amanda Boetzkes

2. Anthropocene Arts: Apocalyptic Realism and the Post-Oil Imaginary in the Niger Delta

Philip Aghoghovwia

3. Fire, Water, Moon: Supplemental Seasons in a Time without Season

Anne-Lise François

Part 2. The Subject of Climate

4. Indigenous Realism and Climate Change

Kyle Powys Whyte

5. Realism’s Phantom Subjects

M. Ty

6. Geologic Realism: On the Beach of Geologic Time

Kathryn Yusoff

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

Ingrid Diran and Antoine Traisnel

8. Perplexing Realities: Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene

Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Biography

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).

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