After the Deluge: What Future for Climate Fiction? - Public Books

Even in a world remade, the past defines the present.

The Climate of History: Four Theses on JSTOR

Dipesh Chakrabarty , The Climate of History: Four Theses, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Winter 2009), pp. 197-222

The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age is to grapple with what this means and to confront humanities scholars with ideas they have been reluctant to reconsider—from the changed nature of human agency to a new acceptance of universals. Chakrabarty argues that we must see ourselves from two perspectives at once: the planetary and the global. This distinction is central to Chakrabarty’s work—the globe is a human-centric construction, while a planetary perspective intentionally decenters the human. Featuring wide-ranging excursions into historical and philosophical literatures, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age boldly considers how to frame the human condition in troubled times. As we open ourselves to the implications of the Anthropocene, few writers are as likely as Chakrabarty to shape our understanding of the best way forward.

Show Your Stripes

Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

Book Review of Making All the World America

Steven T. Newcomb reviews Timothy Bowers Vasko’s Making All the World America: Native Information and the Doctrine of Discovery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026).

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Orientalism (book)

Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward Said, in which he establishes the term "Orientalism" as a critical concept to describe the Western world's commonly contemptuous depiction and portrayal of the Eastern world. Societies and peoples of the Orient are those who inhabit regions throughout Asia and North Africa. Said argues that Orientalism, in the sense of Western scholarship about the Eastern world, is inextricably tied to the imperialist societies that produced it, which makes much Orientalist work inherently political and servile to power.

An interesting observation by Agnes Callard

The 'uni-context' and a left hemisphere dominated world

An Atmospheric Website

Notes from the fifth and final migration.

Another World Archive

Another World is a people's archive of free educational materials about artists and cultural workers in the struggle to build and imagine another world. It affirms that the artist must take sides against oppression and uplift the courage, dignity, and power of everyday people. Their creative labor a

Another World Archive

Another World is a people's archive of free educational materials about artists and cultural workers in the struggle to build and imagine another world. It affirms that the artist must take sides against oppression and uplift the courage, dignity, and power of everyday people. Their creative labor a