Fictioning the Futures of Climate Change

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  • Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay University of Oslo

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prefatory

Abstract

Fictionality, at a basic level, is a heuristic invitation. It achieves its effects using a combination of worldbuilding and speculative potential, the former the design and the latter the openings afforded by the conditions of the design. Within climate change fiction (aka climate fiction, cli-fi, Anthropocene fiction, eco- fiction, and similar modes of fictionality), environmental change and ecological disaster are the design in which such heuristics may be employed, which means that the trials and tribulations of the beings faced by ecological changes in these works act as the trajectories of possible futures, through which we may renegotiate the possibilities, the potentials, the demands, the horrors, and the pleasures of our various presents. The conditions of the world described are the conditions of the world as it could be, even if it does not confuse potential with the definite.

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Published

2022-06-29

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Prefatory