Annihilation and Climate Change

Wed, Aug 30

In the modern era, the hyperobject of global warming makes such a mockery of what our five senses can perceive that the “fixed laws of Nature” seem more and more... to have become un-fixed, the compass spinning wildly. The laws of science, which often seem resolute, begin to seem less so, even if this is just our faulty perception.

 

The uncanny has infiltrated the real, and in some sense that boundary is forever compromised. 

 

— Jeff VanderMeer, “Hauntings in the Anthropocene”

Goals

• Think about some of the different ways that narrative can dramatize concepts
• Consider the role of climate change in Annihilation
• Start thinking about your first paper, and how we understand nature in Annihilation