About Time! The Abyss of the Future and End(s) of Subjectivity in (Climate) Dystopias
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3906129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giovanni Bettini (0000-0002-1191-1913, Lancaster University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 32 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | e-cadernos CES (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1647-0737 • E-ISSN: 1647-0737 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/eces.4907 |
| OpenAlex | W3049210873 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 41 |
As the climate emergency becomes tangible, its intractability within current paradigms suggests the need to envision and enact new “worlds” and forms of subjectivity. This has proven difficult, also in popular culture. In literature and film, dystopia and catastrophe are a frequent resort to narrate a post-climate crisis world. Building on scholarship critical of this tendency, the article zooms in on two dystopian novels, The Water Knife (Bacigalupi, 2015) and La galassia dei dementi (Cavazzoni, 2018), and contrasts the subjective positions these two “nightmares” project onto a future disaster – based on a melancholic mourning of loss, and on a shared condition of lack, respectively. The article argues that, while the former risks resuscitating established ways of “being human” – part of the crises that climate change symptomatizes –, the latter can facilitate imagining new and more just socio-ecological constellations
Aesthetics · Alienation · Art · Climate change · Dystopia · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Subjectivity · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · History · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction · Ecology
Geology of mankind
IPCC reasons for concern regarding climate change risks
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Weathered
Imaginary politics
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Climate catastrophes and fear
Visual climate change art 2005–2015
Climate change, migration, and the crisis of humanism
Cli‐fi on the screen(s)
Managing Climate Insecurity by Ensuring Continuous Capital Accumulation
From ‘fearing’ to ‘empowering’ climate refugees
Adaptation as biopolitics
Climate Barbarians at the Gate? A critique of apocalyptic narratives on ‘climate refugees’
A threat to climate-secure European futures? Exploring racial logics and climate-induced migration in US and EU climate security discourses
Imaging vulnerability
Climate change in literature and literary studies
Monstrosity, Abjection and Europe in the War on Terror
Climate change and apocalyptic faith
Wishful sinking
Premediation and white affect
Climate migration as an adaption strategy
The geology of mankind? A critique of the Anthropocene narrative
Taming the Climate? Corpus analysis of politicians' speech on climate change
Racialisation and the Figure of the Climate-Change Migrant
Images and Imagination in 20th-Century Environmentalism
Posthuman Agency in the Digitally Mediated City
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
The Ends of Humans
Environment, Modernity and the Risk-Society
Deep Time and Secular Time
Interrupting the Anthropo-obScene
A New Climate for Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |