Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis: A new perspective on life in the anthropocene
Gregers Andersen
- London Routledge 2021
- 149+viii
Introduction: The Birth of a New Type of Fiction A Brief History of Global Warming What is Climate Fiction? The Context of this Book Presentation of Content Chapter 1: Cultural Hermeneutics Hermeneutics and Preunderstanding Approaching Climate Fiction Chapter 2: The Social Collapse From the Broken Social Contract to Climate War Post-apocalyptic Worlds The Uncanny as a Mood The Uncanny Relation to the World Chapter 3: The Judgment The Judgment in Cultural History The Judgment in Climate Fiction Serres, Latour, and the Imagination Form Another Uncanny Relation to the World The Judgment as a Denial of Responsibility Chapter 4: The Conspiracy The Conspiracy in Cultural History Doomsday Atmospheres The Arrival of the Super Computer Crichton and The Conspiracy The Suspicious Relation to the World Chapter 5: The Loss of Wilderness The Loss of Wilderness in Cultural History The Destructiveness of Humanity Another Suicidal Ice Lover Heidegger and the Imagination Form The Loving Relation to the World Chapter 6: The Sphere The Sphere in Cultural History Bubbles The Globe Sloterdijk and the Imagination Form The Anthropotechnical Relation to the World Chapter 7: The Birth of a New Perspective Beyond the Grid of the Imagination Forms Two Functions of Climate Fiction Bibliography