UNIT 4 OVERVIEW.
In the fiction applying this imaginary, anthropogenic climate change is experienced as the end of nature. Typically taking place in a wilderness slowly withering or melting due to anthropogenic climate change, humanity’s total and destructive presence everywhere on the planet, this imaginary is experienced as a radical loss of beauty and tranquility. This also means that there is a historical link between the imaginary and the biblical myth of the eviction from paradise – not only because the loss of wilderness in the fiction applying the imaginary is experienced as a paradise about to be lost, but also because this loss marks a definitive and thus fatal loss of harmony in the relationship between humanity and nature.
In the fiction applying this imaginary, anthropogenic climate change is experienced as the end of nature. Typically taking place in a wilderness slowly withering or melting due to anthropogenic climate change, humanity’s total and destructive presence everywhere on the planet, this imaginary is experienced as a radical loss of beauty and tranquility. This also means that there is a historical link between the imaginary and the biblical myth of the eviction from paradise – not only because the loss of wilderness in the fiction applying the imaginary is experienced as a paradise about to be lost, but also because this loss marks a definitive and thus fatal loss of harmony in the relationship between humanity and nature.
CORE TEXTS
Short Fiction
Poetry
Art |
INFORMATIONAL SOURCES
Nonfiction
Websites
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IMAGE GALLERY
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VIDEO GALLERY.
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The Beauty and Fragility of Earth
Pastel Drawings by Zaria Forman (TED Talk) Shrinking Sea Ice and Walrus Colony
Excerpt from "Frozen Worlds" episode of Our Planet series (BBC) |
Melting Vitruvian Man
Aerial Art by John Q |