Global weirding:
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Other Authors: Canavan, Gerry (Editor), Hageman, Andrew (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Vashon Island, Washington Paradoxa [2016]
Series:Paradoxa no. 28
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Abstract:"Global Weirding" was a term invented in 2010 that tried to sidestep post-truth assumptions about "global warming," the kind of thing that got lunatic politicians carrying snowballs into senate hearings. Surely everyone could agree that the weather has got seriously weirder--unpredictable, chaotic, menacing. Gerry Canavan and Andrew Hageman have commissioned a bunch of smart people to cross-fertilize this idea with that other crucial weirdness of the 21st century, the increasing cultural centrality of "weird fiction," once an overlooked, interstitial mode of pulp writing but now ever more visible in literature and visual culture. We hear from China Miéville and Jeff VanderMeer, the transatlantic leaders of the New Weird, and Timothy Morton, leading ecocritic just now turning to reflect upon the resources of the weird. A vital and timely intervention into unfathomably strange times."--Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck, University of London
Physical Description:277 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm
ISBN:9781929512409
1929512406