Climate Realism | Media@McGill Intl Conference
Media@McGillâs international colloquium asks leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences to spell out a new research agenda for climate theory and aesthetics in the age of the Anthropocene. How is realismâin both the aesthetic history of representation and the philosophical tradition that underwrites itâtransformed by contending with our new experience of climate in the Anthropocene? In order to temper climate change â to apprehend its complexity, to address its short- and long-term consequences, to mitigate its many sources â Climate Realism boldly claims we must develop new aesthetic theories and projects.
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Pierre Bélanger (Harvard University)
Title coming soon
Amanda Boetzkes (University of Guelph)
âEcological Postures For a Climate Realismâ
Ingrid Diran (Pacific Northwest College of Art) and Antoine Traisnel (University of Michigan)
âClimate Change, Natural History, and the Extinction of Dialectical Thoughtâ
Anne-Lise François (University of California at Berkeley)
âFlowers of a Day: Margins, Reserves, Climate Changeâ
Barbara Herrnstein Smith (Duke University)
âPerplexing Realities: Practicing Relativism in the Anthropoceneâ
Graeme Macdonald (University of Warwick)
ââThe New Oil Realityâ, or Petroleumâs Returning Monstersâ
Alessandra Ponte (Université de Montréal)
âGoverning Climateâ
Nicole Starosielski (New York University)
âThermal Visionâ
Michelle Ty (Clemson University)
âRealismâs Phantom Subjectsâ
Kyle Powys Whyte (Michigan State University)
âIndigenizing the Time, Memory and History of Climate Changeâ
Kathryn Yusoff (Queen Mary University London)
âGeologic Realism: Epochal Thoughts and the Terminal Beach of Geologic Timeâ