Synopsis
An argument that modern culture, literature, and politics are strangely unable to imagine and confront climate change, a failure rooted in colonial modernity.
Core passage idea
Paraphrase · Modern copyrighted workOur literary and political imaginations were formed to hide the wild improbabilities and collective scale that climate catastrophe forces upon us.
It locates the climate crisis partly in a crisis of imagination shaped by modern, Western assumptions.
To avoid a bubble
Pair with Bruno Latour, Politics of Nature.
Reading note
Read it as essayistic cultural criticism that moves between fiction, history, and politics.
Best paired with
Bruno Latour, Politics of Nature