Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather, Climate, and Atmosphere
Edited by Lynn Badia, Marija Cetinić, & Jeff Diamanti
Climate Realism has four components:
1. A scholarly edited collection (under contract, Routledge)
2. A double, special issue of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities (Forthcoming 2020)
3. The Media@McGill International Colloquium (March 2017)
4. A 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 in the well-established political and scientific discourses of climate change by naming and exploring emergent aesthetic practices, and the conceptual project of mediating the various forces embedded in climate.
For more information, visit: www.climaterealism.ca
1. A scholarly edited collection (under contract, Routledge)
2. A double, special issue of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities (Forthcoming 2020)
3. The Media@McGill International Colloquium (March 2017)
4. A 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 in the well-established political and scientific discourses of climate change by naming and exploring emergent aesthetic practices, and the conceptual project of mediating the various forces embedded in climate.
For more information, visit: www.climaterealism.ca
The Media@McGill International Colloquium on "Climate Realism"
March 9-11, 2017, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC)
Program:
March 9-11, 2017, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC)
Program:
- 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”
- Michelle Ty (Clemson University): “Realism’s Phantom Subjects”
- Kyle Powys Whyte (Michigan State University): “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”