About Time! The Abyss of the Future and End(s) of Subjectivity in (Climate) Dystopias
As the climate emergency becomes tangible, its intractability within current paradigms suggests the need to envision and enact new “worlds” and forms of subjectivity. This has proven difficult, also in popular culture. In literature and film, dystopia and catastrophe are a frequent resort to narrate...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:eces_4907 https://doi.org/10.4000/eces.4907 urn:doi:10.4000/eces.4907 en https://journals.openedition.org/eces/4907 2020-08-17T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/ffoh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ About Time! The Abyss of the Future and End(s) of Subjectivity in (Climate) Dystopias e-cadernos CES Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1647-0737 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/eces Bettini, Giovanni dystopia anthropocene climate/environmental fiction environmental catastrophe imagination distopia antropoceno catástrofe ambiental ficção climática/ambiental imaginação As the climate emergency becomes tangible, its intractability within current paradigms suggests the need to envision and enact new “worlds” and forms of subjectivity. This has proven difficult, also in popular culture. In literature and film, dystopia and catastrophe are a frequent resort to narrate a post-climate crisis world. Building on scholarship critical of this tendency, the article zooms in on two dystopian novels, The Water Knife (Bacigalupi, 2015) and La galassia dei dementi (Cavazzoni, 2018), and contrasts the subjective positions these two “nightmares” project onto a future disaster – based on a melancholic mourning of loss, and on a shared condition of lack, respectively. The article argues that, while the former risks resuscitating established ways of “being human” – part of the crises that climate change symptomatizes –, the latter can facilitate imagining new and more just socio-ecological constellations. À medida que a emergência climática se torna tangível, a sua intratabilidade nos paradigmas atuais sugere a necessidade de visualizar e decretar novos “mundos” e formas de subjetividade. Isto também se revelou difícil na cultura popular. Na literatura e no cinema, distopia e catástrofe são um recurso frequente para narrar um mundo de pós-crise climática. Com base em estudos críticos dessa tendência, o artigo foca-se em dois romances distópicos, The Water Knife (Bacigalupi, 2015) e La galassia dei dementi (Cavazzoni, 2018), e compara as posições subjetivas que estes “pesadelos” projetam num desastre futuro – com base num luto melancólico de perda e numa condição partilhada de escassez, respetivamente. O artigo argumenta que, enquanto o primeiro corre o risco de ressuscitar formas estabelecidas de se “ser humano” – como parte das crises que as mudanças climáticas sintomatizam –, o segundo pode facilitar a imaginação de novas e mais justas constelações socioecológicas. |
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As the climate emergency becomes tangible, its intractability within current paradigms suggests the need to envision and enact new “worlds” and forms of subjectivity. This has proven difficult, also in popular culture. In literature and film, dystopia and catastrophe are a frequent resort to narrate a post-climate crisis world. Building on scholarship critical of this tendency, the article zooms in on two dystopian novels, The Water Knife (Bacigalupi, 2015) and La galassia dei dementi (Cavazzoni, 2018), and contrasts the subjective positions these two “nightmares” project onto a future disaster – based on a melancholic mourning of loss, and on a shared condition of lack, respectively. The article argues that, while the former risks resuscitating established ways of “being human” – part of the crises that climate change symptomatizes –, the latter can facilitate imagining new and more just socio-ecological constellations. |
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About Time! The Abyss of the Future and End(s) of Subjectivity in (Climate) Dystopias |
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