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L’Image au pied de la lettre. L’imagerie aménageuse au prisme de la (climate) fiction

open access: yesLes Cahiers de la Recherche Architecturale, Urbaine et Paysagère, 2023
The images produced by developers and real estate promoters are relatively homogeneous. Between commercial promise and optimistic prefiguration of future urban changes, they have little connection to other contemporary discourses, fictions and ...
Soline Nivet
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Culture and climate change scenarios: the role and potential of the arts and humanities in responding to the ‘1.5 degrees target’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper critically assesses the role and potential of the arts and humanities in relation to the ‘1.5 degree target’ embedded within the Paris Agreement. Specifically, it considers the purpose of scenarios in inviting thinking about transformed futures.
Smith, Joe, Tyszczuk, Renata
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Quelle(s) singularité(s) des imaginaires urbains de la fiction climatique au cinéma ?

open access: yesReS Futurae, 2023
The article proposes to question the specificity of the place of urban imaginaries in cli‑fi films. Are these imaginaries radically different from the most common representations of urban spaces in science fiction narratives?
Pierre‑Jacques Olagnier
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‘To Learn from Nature, not to Exploit Her’: Discerning Postcolonial Green Speculations in Vandana Singh’s Indra’s Web and Widdam

open access: yesNalans, 2023
As a new generation of writers and artists from the Global South deal with the effects of human-caused environmental damage and climate change, they rely heavily on science fiction and fantasy as a genre to show the most important parts of the ...
Sakshi Semwal, Smita Jha
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Mycelium Matter(s) – Fictionalizing Human–Mushroom Relations

open access: yesJednak Książki, 2022
Through this paper, the author tries to explore a simple yet complex question: how do we decentralize the human presence in conversations about climate-change?
Vishwaveda Joshi
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Flocking together : collective animal minds in contemporary fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The remarkable coordination displayed by animal groups such as an ant colony or a flock of birds in flight is not just a behavioral feat; it reflects a full-fledged form of collective cognition.
Caracciolo, Marco
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Du théâtre de science-fiction politique au macro-événement culturel : étude de cas sur Vous êtes ici (en compagnie des créatrices) 

open access: yesReS Futurae, 2021
This paper is a problematized study of an atypical case of the contemporary Swiss theater scene: Vous êtes ici, a science-fiction theater series unfolding its 10 episodes over the 2020-2021 season.
Aurélien Maignant, Roberta Alberico
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“The hope – the one hope – is that your generation will prove wiser and more responsible than mine.” Constructions of guilt in a selection of disaster texts for young adults [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper explores a range of definitions of guilt, and argues that fiction for young adults which is set after a major disaster that has been caused by humans has surprisingly little emphasis on guilt.
Baccolini   +26 more
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Penser le Cthulhucène et son géotraumatisme : le cas Cyclonopedia de Reza Negarestani

open access: yesReS Futurae, 2023
In Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials (2008), concepts by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari intersect with the cosmic deities imagined by H.P.
Fabien Richert
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Mashing It Up: Creative Writing Pedagogy and the Affective Possibilities of Genre Meeting Climate Fiction

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Environmental Education
This article explores how pedagogy focused on affective possibilities of narrative genres can suggest new directions for climate fiction, potentially challenging the dystopian dominance in the climate crisis imaginary.
Alex Cothren   +2 more
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