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Environmental Apocalypse in Science and Art - Designing Nightmares (Hardcover, New)
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Environmental Apocalypse in Science and Art - Designing Nightmares (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
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At a time when it is clear that climate change adaptation and
mitigation are failing, this book examines how our assumptions
about (valid and usable) knowledge are preventing effective climate
action. Through a cross-disciplinary, empirically-based analysis of
climate science and policy, the book situates the failures of
climate policy in the cultural history of prediction and its
interfaces with policy. Fava calls into question the current
interfaces between scientific research and climate policy by
tracing multiple connections between modelling, epistemology,
politics, food security, religion, art, and the apocalyptic.
Demonstrating how the current domination of climate policy by
models and scenarios is part of the problem, the book examines how
artistic practices are a critical location to ask questions
differently, rethink environmental futures, and activate social
change. The analysis starts with another moment of climatic change
in recent western history: the overlap of the Little Ice Age and
the "scientific revolution," during which intense climatic,
scientific and political change were contemporary with mathematical
calculation of the apocalypse. Dealing with the need for complex
answers to complex and urgent questions, this is essential reading
for those interested in climate action, interdisciplinary research
and methodological innovation. The empirical analyses amount to a
methodological experiment, across history of science, theology, art
theory and history, architecture, future studies, climatology,
computer modelling, and agricultural policy. This book is a major
contribution to understanding how we are precluding effective
climate action, and designing futures that resemble our worst
nightmares.
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