Aesthetics of the fucked
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5725882 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sean Grattan (Quincy University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1388-1404 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Textual Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-236X • E-ISSN: 1470-1308 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0950236x.2023.2248795 |
| OpenAlex | W4386167295 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article argues that in the face of climate chaos, which disproportionately affects minoritised communities and populations, an aesthetics of the present needs to take into account the strange moods and temporalities of living within a disaster. Apocalypse is unevenly distributed and systemic racism cannot be untangled from narratives of climate catastrophe. It is for this reason that speculative fiction, particularly by queer and BIPOC authors, is particularly well oriented to envisioning global futures, and for grappling with what utopia looks like now. The essay turns to N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season as one example of the imbrication of climate chaos and racialisation. This reading describes what I am calling an aesthetics of the fucked that takes into account the queer time of having to think and live within multiple spatial and temporal scales all attenuated to crisis. What forms of belonging might come into being in the wash of ecological destruction and salvage epistemologies? What happens when the new weird becomes the new normal
Aesthetics · Art · Dream · Dystopia · Epistemology · Literature · Narrative · Queer · Sociology · Temporalities · Temporality · Theology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |