{"id":862,"date":"2020-01-29T12:25:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T12:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=862"},"modified":"2020-04-22T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T07:20:08","slug":"imagining-catastrophe-february-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2020\/01\/29\/imagining-catastrophe-february-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagining Catastrophe &#8211; February 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us at <strong>4pm in Arts 141<\/strong> on the <strong>4th of February<\/strong> for a discussion of Michael Richardson&#8217;s <strong>&#8216;Climate Trauma, or the Affects of the Catastrophe to Come&#8217;<\/strong>. In this article Richardson argues that &#8216;climate catastrophe are traumatically affecting without necessarily being traumatizing: they are jarring, rupturing, disjunctive experiences of future crisis in the now.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on and following the work of Timothy Morton (2013), and E. Ann Kaplan (2016), Richardson explores the affects of climate apocalypse in three texts: George Miller&#8217;s <em>Mad Max Fury Road<\/em> (2015), Marina Zurkow&#8217;s <em>Slurb <\/em>(2009), and Briohny Doyle&#8217;s novel <em>The Island Will Sink <\/em>(2016). If you don&#8217;t get chance to complete the reading, but have a knowledge of these other texts, it would be great to have you!<\/p>\n<p>A link to the text can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/r5gm6ld\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/r5gm6ld<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Article on Marina Zurkow&#8217;s <em>Slurb<\/em> featuring the animation is also available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/skm78l4\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/skm78l4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-864 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/01\/Slurb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/01\/Slurb.png 564w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/01\/Slurb-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 85vw, 564px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where? Arts 141<\/li>\n<li>When? Tuesday, February 4th, 4-6pm<\/li>\n<li>What? Prepare by reading the text, for a group discussion.<\/li>\n<li>Who? Everyone is welcome!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Drinks and Refreshments will be Provided!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CTRG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us at 4pm in Arts 141 on the 4th of February for a discussion of Michael Richardson&#8217;s &#8216;Climate Trauma, or the Affects of the Catastrophe to Come&#8217;. In this article Richardson argues that &#8216;climate catastrophe are traumatically affecting without necessarily being traumatizing: they are jarring, rupturing, disjunctive experiences of future crisis in the now.&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2020\/01\/29\/imagining-catastrophe-february-4th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Imagining Catastrophe &#8211; February 4th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":376,"featured_media":864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[205,203,195,208,207,204,206,188,201,209],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theory-group","tag-briohny-doyle","tag-catastrophe","tag-climate-trauma","tag-e-ann-kaplan","tag-george-miller","tag-mad-max","tag-marina-zurkow","tag-michael-richardson","tag-slurb","tag-timothy-morton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}