Volume 21, Numbers 1-2

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Climate change asks of critical and cultural theorists nothing more or less than a re-evaluation of ourselves, even while it challenges us to put to use the critical tools we have at hand. For one thing, it calls for us to ask how critical concepts like power, ideology, mediation, capital, colonialism, gender, oppression, society, and construction help us to understand the challenges presented by climate change. For another, it asks whether the current crisis wrought by anthropogenic climate change defies or affirms the assumptions that underpin cultural critical theory—and to what extent. Can we respond—and, if so, how—through now established critical modes, such as those signaled by deconstruction, post-structuralism, genre theory, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and science studies, or those practiced under the rubrics of, among others, Agamben, Badiou, Butler, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Habermas, Latour, and Žižek? Or does climate change demand a new kind of theory?

Contents

Adeline Johns-Putra
A New Critical Climate

Timothy Clark
The Deconstructive Turn

Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Can Theory Save The Planet?

Timothy Morton
Poisoned Ground

Claire Colebrook
Framing The End Of The Species

Thomas H. Ford
Aura In The Anthropocene

Matthew Griffiths
Climate Change And The Individual Talent

Deborah Lilley
Theories Of Certain Uncertainty

Maggie Kainulainen
Saying Climate Change

Adeline Johns-Putra
Environmental Care Ethics

Gregers Andersen
Greening The Sphere

Matt Spencer
Doing Science Justice

Brian Lennon
New Stationary States

Karen Pinkus
Thinking Diverse Futures From A Carbon Present

John Miller
Biodiversity And The Abyssal Limits Of The Human

Adam Trexler
Integrating Agency With Climate Critique