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L’Image au pied de la lettre. L’imagerie aménageuse au prisme de la (climate) fiction
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]
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 ?
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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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
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]
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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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]
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.
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Penser le Cthulhucène et son géotraumatisme : le cas Cyclonopedia de Reza Negarestani
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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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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