Tagged: Troubling Time

Hand drawing of a fictional map, above which are the words "The End of Flatland"

La emergencia climática a través imaginarios multidimensional de Flatland

La novela decimonónica Flatland, de Edwin A. Abbott, suele describirse como una obra de ciencia ficción (o ficción matemática). Valeria Zambianchi sostiene que también puede leerse como ficción climática, en la medida en que muestra que las posibilidades para enfrentar la crisis climática ya están presentes en nuestro mundo.

A shoreline with a statue of an bird, in flight and facing toward the water, on the land. The land has vibrant green grass in the foreground and rocks leading into a light blue ocean.

El Asunto del Tiempo

Monika Szuba enfrenta el tiempo profundo a través del examen de la descomposición, entre lo que es real y lo que es sintético. En este contexto, escribe que la longue durée no es lo suficientemente larga para concebir el cambio antropogénico que se despliega a nuestro alrededor.

Various documents and a black and white polaroid sit on a counter, each has visible burning around the edges.

Archives, Aldo Leopold, and an Age of Fire

Dylan Couch traces the complex connections between Aldo Leopold’s conservation land ethic, worsening wildfire risk, and archival precarity that threatens not only living and physical things, but collective memory.

A sculpture with two long mosaic pieces of browns, grays, and blacks reaches toward the sky. The sculpture is surrounded by a ring of rust-colored rocks.

Memorializing Wildfire at the Playground

Jessica George interrogates the politics of seemingly apolitical wildfire memorials and examines how climate change-related art challenge the timelessness of conventional monuments.

Hand drawing of a fictional map, above which are the words "The End of Flatland"

Climate Crisis Meets Flatland’s Multidimensional Imaginaries

Edwin A. Abbott’s nineteenth-century novel Flatland is often described as a science (or mathematical) fiction. Valeria Zambianchi argues that it can be read as climate fiction, as it shows that the possibilities to combat climate crisis are already present in our world.