Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2015 novel Aurora is many things, but you might, if you’re very irritated, characterize it as a very long book about how hard it is to be…
Posts Tagged ‘environment’
Stuck in the Future (of the Past)
When I started writing this, in mid-June of 2022, it was 100 degrees in central Illinois. A “heat dome” had settled over much of the United States — it was…
Introduction to Stuckness
Stuckness might be the prevailing affect of late modernity. In contrast to the humanities’ valorization of sustained attention to the nuance of textuality, or to the accelerated demands on our…