Climate fiction and cultural analysis : a new perspective on life in the anthropocene

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    • Andersen, Gregers

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Climate fiction and cultural analysis : a new perspective on life in the anthropocene

Gregers Andersen

(Routledge environmental literature, culture and media)

Routledge, 2020

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-148) and index

On t.p. "earthscan from Routledge"

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内容説明

Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis argues that the popularity of the term "climate fiction" has paradoxically exhausted the term's descriptive power and that it has developed into a black box containing all kinds of fictions which depict climatic events and has consequently lost its true significance. Aware of the prospect of ecological collapse as well as our apparent inability to avert it, we face geophysical changes of drastic proportions that severely challenge our ability to imagine the consequences. This book argues that this crisis of imagination can be partly relieved by climate fiction, which may help us comprehend the potential impact of the crisis we are facing. Strictly assigning "climate fiction" to fictions that incorporate the climatological paradigm of anthropogenic global warming into their plots, this book sets out to salvage the term's speculative quality. It argues that climate fiction should be regarded as no less than a vital supplement to climate science, because climate fiction makes visible and conceivable future modes of existence within worlds not only deemed likely by science, but which are scientifically anticipated. Focusing primarily on English and German language fictions, Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis shows how Western climate fiction sketches various affective and cognitive relations to the world in its utilization of a small number of recurring imaginaries, or imagination forms. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecocriticism, the environmental humanities, and literary and culture studies more generally.

目次

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Birth of a New Type of Fiction A Brief History of Global Warming What is Climate Fiction? The Context of this Book Presentation of Content Chapter 1: Cultural Hermeneutics Hermeneutics and Preunderstanding Approaching Climate Fiction Chapter 2: The Social Collapse From the Broken Social Contract to Climate War Post-apocalyptic Worlds The Uncanny as a Mood The Uncanny Relation to the World Chapter 3: The Judgment The Judgment in Cultural History The Judgment in Climate Fiction Serres, Latour, and the Imagination Form Another Uncanny Relation to the World The Judgment as a Denial of Responsibility Chapter 4: The Conspiracy The Conspiracy in Cultural History Doomsday Atmospheres The Arrival of the Super Computer Crichton and The Conspiracy The Suspicious Relation to the World Chapter 5: The Loss of Wilderness The Loss of Wilderness in Cultural History The Destructiveness of Humanity Another Suicidal Ice Lover Heidegger and the Imagination Form The Loving Relation to the World Chapter 6: The Sphere The Sphere in Cultural History Bubbles The Globe Sloterdijk and the Imagination Form The Anthropotechnical Relation to the World Chapter 7: The Birth of a New Perspective Beyond the Grid of the Imagination Forms Two Functions of Climate Fiction Bibliography

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