Sergio Fava

Environmental Apocalypse in Science and Art

Designing Nightmares

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Produktbeschreibung

Why are climate mitigation and adaptation failing? This book situates climate policy in the cultural history of future-prediction practices. Tracing relations between modelling, epistemology, politics, food security, religion, art and the apocalyptic, its case studies examine how different modes of representing nature and imagining futures are catalysts or obstacles for immediate action.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780415634014
• ISBN-10: 0415634016
• Artikelnr.: 36079779

Autorenporträt

Sergio Fava is Lecturer in Photography at the Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Deadly Weather: Narratives of Nature and Agency During the
Little Ice Age 2. Counting the Days: John Napier's Exegesis and Mathematics
3. Drawing the End: Inigo Jones's Banqueting House 4. Assembling the
Worldmachine: Mathematical Modelling of Climate Change 5. Imagining
Futures: The Special Report on Emission Scenarios 6. Creating One Future:
The Doomsday Vault 7. Reclaiming Futures: Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project