|aClimate realism :|bthe aesthetics of weather and atmosphere in the Anthropocene /|cedited by Lynn Badia, Marija Cetinić, and Jeff Diamanti.
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|aAbingdon, Oxon :|bRoutledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business,|c2021
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|ax, 161 pages :|billustrations (black and white) ;|c24 cm.
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|astill image|bsti|2rdacontent
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|aunmediated|bn|2rdamedia
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|aRoutledge research in the anthropocene
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|aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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|aEcological postures for a climate realism / Amanda Boetzkes -- Anthropocene arts: apocalyptic realism and the post-oil imaginary in the Niger Delta / Philip Aghoghovwia -- Fire, water, moon: supplemental seasons in a time without season / Anne-Lise Franc̦ois -- Indigenous realism and climate change / Kyle Powys Whyte -- Realism's phantom subjects / M. Ty -- Geologic realism: on the beach of geologic time / Kathryn Yusoff -- The poetics of geopower: climate change and the politics of representation / Ingrid Diran and Antoine Traisnel -- Perplexing realities: practicing relativism in the Anthropocene / Barbara Herrnstein Smith
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|aThis book sets forth a new research agenda for climate theory and aesthetics for the age of the Anthropocene. It explores the challenge of representing and conceptualizing climate in the era of climate change. In the Anthropocene when geologic conditions and processes are primarily shaped by human activity, climate indicates not only atmospheric forces but the gamut of human activity that shape these forces. It includes the fuels we use, the lifestyles we cultivate, the industrial infrastructures and supply chains we build, and together these point to the possible futures we may encounter. This book demonstrates how every weather event constitutes the climatic forces that are as much social, cultural, and economic as they are environmental, natural, and physical. By foregrounding this fundamental insight, it intervenes in the well-established political and scientific discourses of climate change by identifying and exploring emergent aesthetic practices and the conceptual project of mediating the various forces embedded in climate. This book is the first to sustain a theoretical and analytical engagement with the category of realism in the context of anthropogenic climate change, to capture climate's capacity to express embedded histories, and to map the formal strategies of representation that have turned climate into cultural content.