Anna Kornbluh on the prevalence of aesthetic immediacy and why we need climate counteraesthetics.
Events (from the introduction):
at the Zollo Collective:
https://www.instagram.com/zollo.hamburg/?hl=en at La Band Varga:
https://labandavaga.org/?page_id=102
Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland:
Shownotes
Anna Kornbluh’s personal website (including all her publications):
Anna at the University of Illinois Chicago:
https://engl.uic.edu/profiles/kornbluh-anna/
Kornbluh, A. (2024). Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3031-immediacy-or-the-style-of-too-late-capitalism
Kornbluh, A. (2023). We Didn’t Start The Fire. Death Drive and Ecocide. Parapraxis Magazine Issue 3.
https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/we-didnt-start-the-fire
Kornbluh, A. (2020). Climate Realism, Capitalist and Otherwise. Mediations. Journal of the Marxist Literary Group. Vol. 33. No. 1-2. P. 99-118.
https://mediationsjournal.org/articles/climate-realism
Kornbluh, A. (2019). The Order of Forms. Realism, Formalism, and Social Space. University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo44521006.html
Groos, J., Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
on Alexis Pauline Gumbs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Pauline_Gumbs
https://www.alexispauline.com/
her essay on the Maui wildfires:
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a44819303/climate-crisis-maui/
on climate fiction (cli-fi):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_fiction
Rebecca Saltzman:
Haraway, D. J. (2016). Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble
Tsing, A. L. (2021). The Mushroom at the End of the World. On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220550/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world
on the genre of the Heist film:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heist_film
on “Logan Lucky”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Lucky
Strange, S. (2015). Casino Capitalism. Manchester University Press.
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784991340/
Edward Morgan Forster on Narrative:
https://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/04/e-m-forster-the-difference-between-story-and-plot/
on climate/eco-anxiety:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-anxiety
Spufford, F. (2012). Red Plenty. Graywolf Press.
https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/red-plenty
explanation “hypersititon”:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyperstition
on Kim Stanley Robinson:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson
Robinson, K. S. (2020). The Ministry for the Fu
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