Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene
By Lynn Badia, Marija Cetinić, and Jeff Diamanti
Climate Realism has four components:
Climate Realism names the challenge of representing and conceptualizing climate in the era of climate change. Climate has traditionally referenced the weather it gathers, the mood it creates, and the settings it casts. In the era of the Anthropocene—the contemporary epoch in which geologic conditions and processes are overwhelmingly shaped by human activity—climate indexes not only atmospheric forces but the whole of human history: the fuels we use, the lifestyles we cultivate, the industrial infrastructures and supply chains we build, and the possible futures we may encounter. In other words, with every weather event, we have become acutely aware that the forces indexed by climate are as much social, cultural, and economic as they are environmental, natural, and physical. By starting with this fundamental insight, Climate Realism intervenes by naming and exploring emergent aesthetic practices and the conceptual project of knowing and mediating the various forces embedded in climate.
- A scholarly edited collection (Routledge, 2020)
- A double, special issue of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities (Spring/Fall 2020)
- The Media@McGill International Colloquium (March 2017), Supported by 25,000 SSHRC Connection Grant, Co-applicants Jeff Diamanti, Darin Barney, and Christine Ross (2017)
- "Climate Realism" panel at the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia
Climate Realism names the challenge of representing and conceptualizing climate in the era of climate change. Climate has traditionally referenced the weather it gathers, the mood it creates, and the settings it casts. In the era of the Anthropocene—the contemporary epoch in which geologic conditions and processes are overwhelmingly shaped by human activity—climate indexes not only atmospheric forces but the whole of human history: the fuels we use, the lifestyles we cultivate, the industrial infrastructures and supply chains we build, and the possible futures we may encounter. In other words, with every weather event, we have become acutely aware that the forces indexed by climate are as much social, cultural, and economic as they are environmental, natural, and physical. By starting with this fundamental insight, Climate Realism intervenes by naming and exploring emergent aesthetic practices and the conceptual project of knowing and mediating the various forces embedded in climate.
Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene
Routledge, 2020 www.routledge.com/Climate-Realism-The-Aesthetics-of-Weather-and-Atmosphere-in-the-Anthropocene/Badia-Cetinic-Diamanti/p/book/9781138370043 Introduction
Part 1. The Climate of Representation
Part 2. The Subject of Climate
Part 3. Realism and the Critique of Climate, or Climate and the Critique of Realism
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Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather, Climate, and Atmosphere
A double, special issue of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities (Spring/Fall 2020): https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/resilience.7.issue-2-3
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Media@McGill International Colloquium, McGill University: "Climate Realism"
March 9-11, 2017, Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC)
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