Author: Sam Clark

This might be a slightly off the wall one, but I've been thinking about how to consider something that is fully neither art nor design with a mind towards translating the analytical art-reading strategies we've developed thus quarter. Specifically I want to try and think through Hobbesian themes and how to adapt them to questions … Continue reading Going Old Media: Hobbes, Politics, and Climate Change

In an earlier post, I attempted to outline a view of the puzzle of how climate change and the formal structure of “serious” literature might coexist. My chief holding was in essence a Borgesian one; it is a profoundly more complex charge we face than simply adapting procedure to encompass representation of climate change wholesale … Continue reading Roberto Bolaño, Kanye West: Towards a Future of Climate Change Literature

We would seem to expect climate change literature much as we can be said to expect manticores—in disaggregate, we encounter lions, goats, scorpions, the institution of literature, and climate change, each with some sense of comfort in their existential boundedness; it is rather when we consider such corpuses in their respective monstrous unions that we … Continue reading Derangement, Borges, and the Question of “Writing” Climate Change

Insofar as we endeavor to treat climate change responsibly, we need to ask questions of expediency; what types of inquiry and exploration are the most generative, and which would seem to act in ways that are at odds with the ultimate goal of averting global climate catastrophe. What stands as worth critically interrogating is the … Continue reading Virtuality and the Weakness of Games in Addressing Climate Futures