Mark Bould - What if All the Stories We Tell are About Climate Change?

Tue Nov 09 2021 at 06:30 pm

Bookhaus | Bristol

Mark Bould - What if All the Stories We Tell are About Climate Change?
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At the launch of his new book, The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture, Mark Bould reveals traces of climate catastrophe to be found throughout contemporary literature and film.
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Climate change is not going to happen – it is already happening, and deep down our culture knows it. And not just in the science fictions and climate fictions that tackle head-on the crisis through which we are living.
From the autobiographical fictions of Paul Auster and Karl Ove Knausgaard to the Sharknado movies. From experiments in stream-of-consciousness and pseudo-Old English by Lucy Ellmann and Paul Kingsnorth to the Fast and Furious franchise. From the arthouse cinema of Jia Zhang-Ke, Ben Rivers, Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Andrey Zvyagintsev to the comic strip adventures of Swamp Thing, Man-Thing and Groot. From forking paths to foreclosed futures. Zombies rub shoulders with Booker prize-winners. Tom Cruise dies a lot, and Vin Diesel shows us that we cannot go on like this. Oceans and the trees remind us of other ways to be.
Described as a ‘scintillating work of boisterous melancholy’ (China Miéville) and ‘a thrill-ride rollercoaster of ideas’ (Imre Szeman), The Anthropocene Unconscious argues that critical, creative play is essential if we are to bridge the gulf between contemporary too-little/too-late/if-at-all climate politics and a flourishing biosphere in which we too might flourish.
Mark Bould is in conversation with Andrew Kelly, director of Bristol Ideas.
This event has been co-organised by Bristol Ideas, UWE’s Digital Culture Research Centre and Book Haus.
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Bookhaus, Unit 4 Rope Walk, Hope Quay, BS1 6ZJ Bristol, UK, Bristol

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