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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 May 2014
... effects of human activity on planet Earth. The comprehensive transformations of the epoch that some have come to call the Anthropocene will continue for millennia, and Pendell's ambitious science fiction novel attempts nothing less than to imagine not only the geological but also the human dimensions...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 March 2023
... astrobiology with visions and images from feminist postcolonial and decolonial theory, STS, and science fiction, and reflects on the enduring colonial tropes that provide the building blocks of current knowledge on outer space. The same colonial cartographic imagination at play in the much-debated frontier...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 101–123.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Jonas Anshelm; Anders Hansson Abstract Geoengineering, i.e., the deliberate manipulation of the global climate using grand-scale technologies, poses new challenges in terms of environmental risks and human–nature relationships. Until recently, these technologies were considered science fiction...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 321–345.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Adam Searle Abstract The spectacle of de-extinction is often forward facing at the interface of science fiction and speculative fact, haunted by extinction’s pasts. Missing from this discourse, however, is a robust theorization of de-extinction in the present. This article presents recent...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 208–230.
Published: 01 March 2023
... science fiction narratives and their correlating lived practices to explore how death ethics for those driven extinct by climate change and other environmental injustices can and ought to go beyond affect, symbolism, and abstraction. It puts forward environmental palliation as an alternative framework...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 310–329.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Stefan Skrimshire Abstract What is the best way to communicate with far future human (and/or posthuman) societies? This sounds like a question for science fiction, but I ask it in the context of a pressing issue in environmental ethics: the (very) long-term disposal of high-level spent radioactive...
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in New Ecological Sympathies: Thinking about Contemporary Art in the Age of Extinction
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 6. Hayden Fowler, Anthropocene (2011). Mixed-media installation, 5 × 6.5 × 6.5 m. Exhibited at “Awfully Wonderful: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art,” curated by Lizzie Muller and Bec Dean, Performance Space at Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia, April 15 – May 14, 2011. Photographed
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in New Ecological Sympathies: Thinking about Contemporary Art in the Age of Extinction
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 7. Hayden Fowler, Anthropocene (2011). Mixed-media installation, 5 × 6.5 × 6.5 m. Exhibited at “Awfully Wonderful: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art,” curated by Lizzie Muller and Bec Dean, Performance Space at Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia, April 15 – May 14, 2011. Photographed
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in New Ecological Sympathies: Thinking about Contemporary Art in the Age of Extinction
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 8. Hayden Fowler, Anthropocene (2011). Mixed-media installation, 5 × 6.5 × 6.5 m. Exhibited at “Awfully Wonderful: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art,” curated by Lizzie Muller and Bec Dean, Performance Space at Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia, April 15 – May 14, 2011. Photographed
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 571–589.
Published: 01 November 2024
... license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Donna Haraway Kurt Vonnegut science fiction sympoiesis worlding The following is an exercise in “making oddkin,” or “creating unexpected collaborations and combinations.” 1 Donna Haraway admits she has never read Kurt Vonnegut (pers. comm., March 21, 2021...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 402–426.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Matthew S. Henry Abstract This essay operates at the intersection of the energy humanities and environmental justice studies to survey extractive fictions , a term I use to describe literature and other cultural forms that render visible the socioecological impacts of extractive capitalism...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 275–280.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Chernobyl Acceleration.” 26. VanderMeer and VanderMeer, “Introduction,” xv. 27. VanderMeer, Annihilation , 192 . 28. Povinelli, Geontologies , 28 . 29. Terraforming, originating in science fiction, refers to the process of engineering other planets, moons, or other non...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 300–308.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of Science Fiction (which drew upon anthropology’s analytic of “the other” in a way few pieces in the present collection do; in this issue of Environmental Humanities , the “other” is mostly other worlds, other planets . . . a sign that space science has come to be interested in habitats, and not so much...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., eventually cut off from the outside as railways and the telegraph system fail, descends into chaos, violence, and debauchery, closing in on itself to become an “immense black box.” 16 Written in the immediate wake of the 1905 revolution in Russia, Bryusov’s science fiction tale of “psychical infection...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 2–7.
Published: 01 November 2023
... (Fiction).” 8. Whyte, “Indigenous Science (Fiction),” 237 . 9. McVeigh and Rolston, “Anois ar theacht an tSamhraidh” ; Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White . 10. McVeigh and Rolston, “Anois ar theacht an tSamhraidh.” I understand the notion of inheriting history through...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 255–279.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Figure 6. Hayden Fowler, Anthropocene (2011). Mixed-media installation, 5 × 6.5 × 6.5 m. Exhibited at “Awfully Wonderful: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art,” curated by Lizzie Muller and Bec Dean, Performance Space at Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia, April 15 – May 14, 2011. Photographed...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 602–617.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of the previous texts, for instance in Alfred Döblin’s Berge Meere und Giganten ( Mountains Oceans Giants , 1924), a voluminous science fiction novel that pits unrequited human desire for plants against asexual plant reproduction. As T. S. Miller has shown, science fiction seems to hold particular potential...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 407–430.
Published: 01 November 2020
... (as in science fiction) and social structures (suggesting a genre of “social science fiction”). 46 As Carl Abbott writes, urban fiction emerges from a “desire to consider future social and cultural systems that find their most developed and conflicted form in cities.” 47 He notes, however, that urban...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 129–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Dominion appeared in Spain in 1956 under the title El planeta negro and was published by the science fiction press Nebulae based in Barcelona. The editor, Miguel Masriera, was a famous scientist and popular science writer during Franco’s regime. He even wrote the prologue for Duncan’s novel in Spanish...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 May 2013
... or a fantasy figure in unrealistic science fiction roles? Or should he be taken seriously and analyzed in an academic article on important issues such as energy and environmental policy? Gender analysis in the studies of science, technology, and the environment has become increasingly important in recent...
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