Arena Journal issue no. 35/36, 2011
Contents
Title | Author | PagePg. |
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Introduction | ||
Changing the Climate | Andrew Milner | 1 |
Part I: Science in the Capital | ||
Kym Stanley Robinson | 8 | |
N-H-N': Kim Stanley Robinson's Dialectics of Ecology | Tom Moylan | 22 |
Free Exchange and Dark Secrecy in the Capital | Chris Palmer | 45 |
Part II: Imagining Catastrophe | ||
Imagining Catastrophe: Utopia and Dystopia in a Warming World | Kate Rigby | 57 |
The Ecotopian Modelbuilding of Australian Climate Change Intellectuals | Verity Burgmann | 78 |
Of Bodies and Souls: Ecology and Orthodox Christianity | Tamara Prosic | 95 |
Care, Love and Our Responsibility to the Future | Rupert Read | 115 |
Part III: Writing Catastrophe | ||
Truth is Consequence | John Clute | 124 |
Unlikely Utopians: Ecotopian Dreaming in H.P. Lovecraft's '˜The Shadow over Innsmouth' and Octavia Butler'sLilith's Brood | David Farnell | 141 |
'˜Remember the Voices of the Trees': The Turn from Technology in Kate Wilhelm's Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang | Anne Maxwell | 157 |
Doomed by Hope: Environmental Disaster and the '˜Structured Ignorance' of Risk in Margaret Atwood's Speculative Fiction | Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor | 173 |
Part IV: Visualizing Catastrophe | ||
Shadows of the Holocene: Transfigurations of the Nonhuman World in Science Fiction Film | Linda Williams | 196 |
Politics and Ecology on the Korean Left: AntiAmericanism and Environmental Dystopia in The Host | Gord Sellar | 217 |
Figures of Extraterrestrials in Film: A Threat to Utopia | Lauren Bliss | 233 |
Futurism Now: Structure and Process in Contemporary Art | Laura McLean | 247 |
Afterword | ||
Changed by the Climate | Simon Sellars | 265 |
Notes on Contributors | ||
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