Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis: A New Perspective on Life in the Anthropocene

ISBN-13: 9781032088792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 164 str.

Gregers Andersen

Opis

Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis argues that the popularity of the term "climate fiction" has paradoxically exhausted the term’s descriptive power and developed into a black box containing all kinds of fictions which depict climatic events and consequently lost its true significance.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Gregers Andersen is a postdoctoral researcher in environmental humanities at the Department of English, Stockholm University. He has published articles in several international journals on how literature, films, cultural theory, and philosophy can shed light upon human and non-human conditions in the Anthropocene.