Paroles en l’air: Climate Change and the Science of Fables

Circulating between Rabelais’s frozen words, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault project, Lyotard’s meditation on the death of the sun, frozen embryos bans, and the bioethics of human engineering, this article examines what it means to read and to cultivate an expertise in reading as climate change makes...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Diacritics
Main Author: Bruyère, Vincent
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Project MUSE 2013
Subjects:
Literature and Literary Theory
Svalbard
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dia.2013.0014
id crjohnshopkinsun:10.1353/dia.2013.0014
record_format openpolar
spelling crjohnshopkinsun:10.1353/dia.2013.0014 2024-03-03T08:49:05+00:00 Paroles en l’air: Climate Change and the Science of Fables Bruyère, Vincent 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dia.2013.0014 en eng Project MUSE Diacritics volume 41, issue 3, page 60-79 ISSN 1080-6539 Literature and Literary Theory journal-article 2013 crjohnshopkinsun https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2013.0014 2024-02-03T23:21:03Z Circulating between Rabelais’s frozen words, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault project, Lyotard’s meditation on the death of the sun, frozen embryos bans, and the bioethics of human engineering, this article examines what it means to read and to cultivate an expertise in reading as climate change makes itself present to literary criticism. It is less a plea to make literary criticism policy relevant, and more a memorandum of understanding for what the governance of the future invests in the cultivation of difference in logics of inquiry, and for the moral and social sanction attached to the description of emergent orders of difference. Article in Journal/Newspaper Svalbard Johns Hopkins University Press Svalbard Diacritics 41 3 60 79
institution Open Polar
collection Johns Hopkins University Press
op_collection_id crjohnshopkinsun
language English
topic Literature and Literary Theory
spellingShingle Literature and Literary Theory
Bruyère, Vincent
Paroles en l’air: Climate Change and the Science of Fables
topic_facet Literature and Literary Theory
description Circulating between Rabelais’s frozen words, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault project, Lyotard’s meditation on the death of the sun, frozen embryos bans, and the bioethics of human engineering, this article examines what it means to read and to cultivate an expertise in reading as climate change makes itself present to literary criticism. It is less a plea to make literary criticism policy relevant, and more a memorandum of understanding for what the governance of the future invests in the cultivation of difference in logics of inquiry, and for the moral and social sanction attached to the description of emergent orders of difference.
format Article in Journal/Newspaper
author Bruyère, Vincent
author_facet Bruyère, Vincent
author_sort Bruyère, Vincent
title Paroles en l’air: Climate Change and the Science of Fables
title_short Paroles en l’air: Climate Change and the Science of Fables
title_full Paroles en l’air: Climate Change and the Science of Fables
title_fullStr Paroles en l’air: Climate Change and the Science of Fables
title_full_unstemmed Paroles en l’air: Climate Change and the Science of Fables
title_sort paroles en l’air: climate change and the science of fables
publisher Project MUSE
publishDate 2013
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dia.2013.0014
geographic Svalbard
geographic_facet Svalbard
genre Svalbard
genre_facet Svalbard
op_source Diacritics
volume 41, issue 3, page 60-79
ISSN 1080-6539
op_doi https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2013.0014
container_title Diacritics
container_volume 41
container_issue 3
container_start_page 60
op_container_end_page 79
_version_ 1792506220741918720

Similar Items