Climate Change and the Unthinkable
by Amitav Ghosh
- Author(s)
- Amitav Ghosh
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : Chicago University, 2016
- Scope
- 176 Pages, 21.5 cm.
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? Ghosh examines our inability - at the level of literature, history, and politics - to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. He suggests that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But, according to Ghosh, to limit fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence—a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. ‘The Great Derangement’ has been an important source of inspiration for the Stroom exhibition 'From the Sea to the Clouds to the Soil', autumn 2022.
- Keywords
- imagination , climate change
- Location
- Cabinet 30 - 4: Tentacular Thinking ; Mind Map'
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