Climate Change and the Inescapable Present
The crisis of climate change is a difficult phenomenon to conceptualize, particularly in light of how we experience time and how our consciousness works. It is an event that spans tense in ways that are difficult to pinpoint, and it provides no past precedent to shape our future anticipations. Furth...
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ftsusquehannauni:oai:scholarlycommons.susqu.edu:thea_fac_pubs-1001 2023-05-15T16:29:11+02:00 Climate Change and the Inescapable Present Tiehen, Jeanne 2018-08-30T07:00:00Z application/pdf https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/thea_fac_pubs/2 https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=thea_fac_pubs unknown Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/thea_fac_pubs/2 https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=thea_fac_pubs Theatre Faculty Publications climate change phenomenology Theatre and Performance Studies text 2018 ftsusquehannauni 2021-11-13T17:19:34Z The crisis of climate change is a difficult phenomenon to conceptualize, particularly in light of how we experience time and how our consciousness works. It is an event that spans tense in ways that are difficult to pinpoint, and it provides no past precedent to shape our future anticipations. Furthermore, climate change encounters us at a moment when time also feels compressed. This paper explores climate change and its relationship to time by assessing how theatre, with its own phenomenologically unique qualities of time and experience, has portrayed these tensions. Utilizing phenomenological theories of time from Husserl and Heidegger, and drawing on philosophical and cultural theories of presentism, this paper examines how these ideas manifest in two climate change plays: Moira Buffini, Matt Charman, Penelope Skinner, and Jack Thorne’s Greenland (2011) and Stephen Emmott’s Ten Billion (2012). In conclusion, it is argued that theatre’s own conventions of time and space allows an inescapable present to exist, in which audiences are given a phenomenological experience of climate change that is otherwise unparalleled. Text Greenland Unknown Greenland |
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The crisis of climate change is a difficult phenomenon to conceptualize, particularly in light of how we experience time and how our consciousness works. It is an event that spans tense in ways that are difficult to pinpoint, and it provides no past precedent to shape our future anticipations. Furthermore, climate change encounters us at a moment when time also feels compressed. This paper explores climate change and its relationship to time by assessing how theatre, with its own phenomenologically unique qualities of time and experience, has portrayed these tensions. Utilizing phenomenological theories of time from Husserl and Heidegger, and drawing on philosophical and cultural theories of presentism, this paper examines how these ideas manifest in two climate change plays: Moira Buffini, Matt Charman, Penelope Skinner, and Jack Thorne’s Greenland (2011) and Stephen Emmott’s Ten Billion (2012). In conclusion, it is argued that theatre’s own conventions of time and space allows an inescapable present to exist, in which audiences are given a phenomenological experience of climate change that is otherwise unparalleled. |
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