Climate Realism

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

By Lynn Badia, Marija Cetinić, and Jeff Diamanti

Climate Realism has four components:

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

Lynn Badia, Marija Cetinić, and Jeff Diamanti, "Realism: An Idiosyncratic Origin Story"

Part 1. The Climate of Representation

Amanda Boetzkes, “Ecological Postures for a Climate Realism”
Philip Aghoghovwia, “Anthropocene Arts: Apocalyptic Realism and the Post-Oil Imaginary in the Niger Delta”
Anne-Lise François, “Fire, Water, Moon: Supplemental Seasons in a Time without Season”

Part 2. The Subject of Climate

Kyle Powys Whyte, “Indigenous Realism and Climate Change”
M. Ty, “Realism’s Phantom Subjects”
Kathryn Yusoff, “Geologic Realism: On the Beach of Geologic Time”

Part 3. Realism and the Critique of Climate, or Climate and the Critique of Realism

Ingrid Diran and Antoine Traisnel, “The Poetics of Geopower: Climate Change and the Politics of Representation”
Barbara Herrnstein Smith, “Perplexing Realities: Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene”

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

Lynn Badia, Marija Cetinić, and Jeff Diamanti, “Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather, Climate, and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene”
Marlene Creates, “A Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow: A Lexicon and Photographic Essay”
Bruno Lessard, “Metaphysics of Abstraction: Speculative Photographs in the Anthropocene”
Melody Jue and Rafico Ruiz, “Time Is Melting: Glaciers and the Amplification of Climate Change”
Graig Uhlin, “The Natural and Unnatural Histories of Patricio Guzmán
Selmin Kara and Cydney Langill, “Weirding Climate Realism in Sunshine and Ex Machina”
Kate Galloway, “Listening to and Composing with the Soundscapes of Climate Change”
Chris Malcolm, “Ecocomplicity and the Logic of Settler-Colonial Environmentalism”
Brent Ryan Bellamy, “’The Scientist as Hero’: Representing Climate Science as Politics in the Mars Trilogy”
Thomas A. Laughlin, “Fog, Coal, Capitalism: Dickens's Energy Atmospherics and the Anthropocene”

Media@McGill International Colloquium, McGill University: "Climate Realism"
March 9-11, 2017, Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC)

Pierre Bélanger (Harvard University): “EXTRACTION”
Amanda Boetzkes (University of Guelph): “Ecological Postures For a Climate Realism”
Ingrid Diran (Pacific Northwest College of Art) and Antoine Traisnel (University of Michigan): “Climate Change, Natural History, and the Extinction of Dialectical Thought”
Anne-Lise François (University of California at Berkeley): “Flowers of a Day: Margins, Reserves, Climate Change”
Barbara Herrnstein Smith (Duke University): “Perplexing Realities: Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene”
Graeme Macdonald (University of Warwick): “‘The New Oil Reality’, or Petroleum’s Returning Monsters”
Alessandra Ponte (Université de Montréal): “Governing Climate”
Nicole Starosielski (New York University): “Thermal Vision”
M. Ty (University of Wisconsin, Madison): “Realism’s Phantom Subjects”
Kyle Powys Whyte (University of Michigan): “Indigenizing the Time, Memory and History of Climate Change”
Kathryn Yusoff (Queen Mary University London): “Geologic Realism: Epochal Thoughts and the Terminal Beach of Geologic Time”