Sarah E. McFarland (Professor of Literature and Theory, Northwestern State University) 之演講Ecocollapse Entanglements，講座時間為10月7日上午10:30-12:10。此場講座為實體與線上混合舉行，歡迎您擇一參與。
實體地點：淡江大學T110
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演講摘要：
Amidst the ongoing climate emergency and worldwide species extinctions, climate fiction entangles the science of environmental catastrophes with creative visions of transformed ecological worlds. Yet despite the increasingly frantic warnings from climate scientists that without immediate mitigation, significant Earth ecosystems will be rendered uninhabitable, most fiction that situates itself in a climate-changed future leans on the promise of human survival. By following the plot elements found in the genre of post-apocalyptic fiction, much contemporary fiction maintains the foundational premise at root in the Anthropocene itself: that humans are an exceptional species and at least a handful of intrepid individuals will survive Earth’s transformations to recreate human civilization.
This presentation unpacks climate fiction’s genre elements and examines realistic fictions of ecocollapse to investigate the ways that representations of species precarity and the difficult choices faced by characters in devastated ecosystems problematizes what it means to be “human” in unsustainable worlds. What does it feel like to be a last human witness to global climate transformations? What can climate fiction teach readers about co-emergence with the Anthropocene? Can the emotional resonance of navigating extinction in concert with a fictional narrator help enact transformative change in the real world, right now?
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