{"id":676,"date":"2020-05-13T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/adjacent\/issue-7\/?p=676"},"modified":"2024-10-08T21:52:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T21:52:52","slug":"tactical-delusion-in-an-age-of-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/adjacent\/issue-7\/tactical-delusion-in-an-age-of-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Tactical Delusion in an Age of Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<span class=\"article__caption -is-empty\" data-src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/423278597\" data-index=\"1\"><\/span>\n\n<div class=\"video-holder -is-iframe-layout\" style=\"padding:176.94% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/423278597?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mce_20\"><strong>Climate<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Think of the last conversation you had with friends or family, the most recent article you read online, or the latest report you saw in the media about the climate crisis. Perhaps you skimmed through social media posts from the \u201cYouth Strike 4 Climate\u201d or saw headlines declaring that we have 12 years to avoid a climate change catastrophe. Maybe you read that a lorry driver was pissed off because an Extinction Rebellion protest was holding up traffic, insisting that \u201cnothing changes anyway. We\u2019re fucked, none of this will work,\u201d or that \u201csemi-naked\u2026 protesters [interrupted] a Commons debate on Brexit,\u201d singing \u201cNelly the Elephant\u201d while demanding climate justice. Maybe you found the Op-Ed piece in <em>The New York Times<\/em> that proposed \u201ca neat mental trick to understand the climate battle ahead [is to]&#8230; pretend it\u2019s aliens,\u201d followed by another article claiming that it\u2019s \u201ctime to panic.\u201d In Florida, iguanas are falling; in Australia, koalas are burning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/adjacent\/issue-7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/05\/ExtinctionCollage-842x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1138\"\/><figcaption> <br><em><strong>Fig.1.<\/strong> A compilation of online content from news and social media platforms about climate change from 2019 to-date, including a New York Times Op-Ed piece that suggested equating the climate crisis to aliens in order to understand its scope, a build-up of Instagram photos from #YouthStrike4Climate picked up by publications worldwide, plus a Daily Mail article about a group of half-naked <em>climate change\u00a0protesters\u00a0in the UK who disrupted a Commons debate on Brexit with Labor Party politician Ed Milliband\u2019s alleged reaction.<\/em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the UK and US, urgent calls-to-action have surged in media coverage of the climate crisis. Anxious rhetoric dominates the news and social media as we parse through facts and figures. Communication infrastructures decontextualise distributed information online. We scroll and scroll as narratives become exaggerated, false beliefs are perpetuated, and skepticisms are facilitated\u2014inducing \u201cclimate anxieties\u201d that impact our collective mental health and psychological well-being.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate change is <em>real<\/em>, but there continues to be confusion and tension when the media reports about the crisis to the public, and consequently, how we communicate this type of information with each other. In Jacques Derrida\u2019s introduction to <em>Echographies of Television <\/em>(1996), the philosopher warns, regarding interactions between the media and the public, \u201cnot [to] give way to an inflation of the simulacrum and neutralize every threat in what might be called the delusion of delusion, [or] the denial of the event.\u201d For some, climate change is considered a spectacle\u2014a disputable phenomenon\u2014ignoring its violent ontological reality. And, online, delusions about climate change are normalized by skeptics, anti-science think tanks, corporations, and governments alike.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In Florida, iguanas are falling. In Australia, koalas are burning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2008, the<em> Australian &amp; New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry <\/em>documented a case about a 17-year old who stopped drinking water after developing a delusion that his own water consumption could lead (\u201cwithin days\u201d) to the deaths of \u201cmillions of people through an exhaustion of the water [supply].\u201d The teen described \u201chearing his own voice [making] derogatory and command statements and [having] visions of apocalyptic events,\u201d pointing to internet research as the basis of his rationale and behaviour. Overwhelmed with guilt, the teen developed a blanket delusion as both a reasonable solution and coping mechanism for the catastrophic potential of the climate crisis. Medical examiners soon diagnosed this previously unreported phenomenon as a \u201cclimate change delusion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two key factors which precipitated the teen\u2019s delusion: (1) the temporal impulse to act with urgency, and (2) the Web used as an indisputable source of information. In the existing ecology of communication, I interpret the former as a function in the network dynamics of information, and the latter as a platform for accelerated distribution, which intensifies the emergence of delusion as an affective response. This analysis qualifies the concept of delusion as neither negative nor positive \/ right or wrong \/ true or false, but rather, a condition triggered by an affective interface with digital information, communication technology and the ontological reality of climate change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What exactly kind of crisis is this?&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we thumb, tap and click through the screen, through a seemingly endless catalog of information, our agency is suspended in delusion, manifesting as a crisis in affect that fictionalizes the brutality of an ecological crisis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<span class=\"article__caption -is-empty\" data-src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/423281620\" data-index=\"2\"><\/span>\n\n<div class=\"video-holder -is-iframe-layout\" style=\"padding:176.94% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/423281620?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mce_28\"><strong>Affect<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Affect, generated by inhabiting the dynamics of the network, unfolds into a crisis when manufactured delusions depoliticise the dimensions of climate change. In media, the production and distribution of information (as a relational process) fuels the formation of delusions and stifles the public\u2019s total comprehension of the crisis. In addition, reporting on conditions of uncertainty, risk and urgency can cause worries and concerns, precipitating an affective response that, ultimately, impacts thoughts and influences behaviours.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a 2013 study on reporting risk and uncertainty, James Painter observed that \u201cscientists, politicians and policymakers are increasingly using the concept and language of risk in a context of uncertainty\u201d; this strategy, however, \u201ccan often slip into \u2018disaster,\u2019 \u2018alarmist,\u2019 or \u2018catastrophe\u2019 language\u201d\u2014narratives that might attract media attention but counteract improvements in public understanding and engagement\u2014\u201c[having] the effect of creating fear, despair and anxiety\u201d instead.Similarly, in a 2017 Op-Ed in <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, Michael Mann and Susan Joy Hassol acknowledged a \u201cdramatic rise in the prominence of <em>climate doomism<\/em>\u2014commentary that portrays climate change not just as a threat that requires an urgent response but also as an essentially lost cause [and] a hopeless fight.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This type of rhetoric can be used as clickbait tactics, to cite one example, in order to increase web traffic and advertising revenue. But in the current ecology of communication, tactics like these expose a decentralised production of crisis rhetoric, in which information\u2014either fact or opinion\u2014operate as noise in the communication infrastructure, amplifying misconceptions, or worse, reconstructing the ontological reality of climate change itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 2018, after tropical storm Yagi hit the Philippines, news media outlets from different parts of the world published a social media story that went viral about a bride moving forward with their wedding ceremony in a flooded church. \u201cFor wetter or worse\u201d and \u201clove conquers all\u201d as some stories described the couple\u2019s defiance to wed ahead in spite of the conditions\u2014the bride, winning the hearts of people worldwide. On <em>The Guardian<\/em>\u2019s YouTube channel alone, the video recording of the bride, Jobel de los Angeles, has received more than 23,000 views (and counting). Scrolling through the comments, one will find a mix of scattered sentiments and statements: a glorification of the institution of marriage (one of whom argues that marriage is between a man and a woman), values of hope, love and commitment, and even a brief exchange about the Spanish inquisition and colonisation of the Philippines. Jobel\u2019s marriage to her partner became a story of romance and overcoming an obstacle; a narrative of human defying nature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/adjacent\/issue-7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/05\/floodchurch.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1140\"\/><figcaption> <br><em><strong>Fig. 2.<\/strong> In a video originally uploaded on Facebook that, ultimately, went viral, Jobel de los Angeles walked down a flooded church aisle to continue her wedding ceremony after the tropical storm Yagi hit the Philippines in August 2018. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a certain fantasy to this online narrative that is naive to the reality of climate change in the country. One reality is that Yagi\u2019s impact forced an evacuation of 54,000 people in Manila alone. While the Philippines is already vulnerable to extreme weather, the island nation is not exempt from the ongoing and projected impact of climate change-based disasters, including water scarcity, food shortages, increased poverty and death (among millions of people in many other countries in the Global South).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem of network dynamics via platform technologies (YouTube, for example) is that users are now implicated in the turbulent logic of the system. Within the \u201cdelusion of delusion,\u201d interests in sensationalism and priorities toward the \u201cviral\u201d or \u201cinfluence\u201d rearrange relational processes into practices of exclusion; in the participatory and social web, these convolutions reconfigure relationality as a form of calculus. The cultural theorist Franco \u201cBifo\u201d Birardi argues that the \u201cdigitalization of linguistic and physical processes\u2026 has proceeded to insert mathematical functions into the living body of language and social exchange.\u201d Computation, as a function of network dynamics in platform technologies, manifests communication as a quantitative exchange (views, likes, retweets, etc.) and monetises participation as a product of capital.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Is this logic failing?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate change and how we communicate about the crisis bind agency in erratic logic. Rhetorics of anxiety and systems of failing logic can escalate (speed up), extend (prolong) or suspend (resist) the decision-making process toward action\u2014accounts of (non-)behaviour that manifest into affective measures, such as climate despair and fatalism, eco-anxiety, environmental melancholia, and solastalgia. So, when opting to take action toward the crisis, there is almost always an intention to do something (<em>anything<\/em>) in order to slow down, counteract, or offset climate impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/adjacent\/issue-7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/05\/shampoopods-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1145\"\/><figcaption> <br><em><strong>Fig. 3.<\/strong> The increasing online content production and dissemination of \u201cearth-saving\u201d tips (as climate crisis calls-to-action) include \u201cplastic-free shampoo pods\u201d that use a soluble film container and dissolve when used. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, there <em>is<\/em> agency, but systemic protocols in communication misapprehend individual agency, adding up to a collective agency that instead favours the depoliticising of climate change. Within the current logic of the system, individuals become vulnerable to an institutional displacement of accountability (from corporations that practice green neoliberalism to brands that \u201cgreenwash,\u201d from fossil fuel companies that continue to profit from extraction to governments that subsidise this destruction), coaxing widespread marginalisation, financialisation, and exclusion, externalised through communication.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A critical recognition of communication technologies that fetishisise media logocentrism is essential. During an ongoing ecological crisis, in which every<em>thing<\/em> is at stake\u2014human, non-human\u2014a political re-imagining is necessary to expose information that oppress, via platform technologies as a means for reclaiming agency. And if communication now functions in a stark degree of delusion during a crisis in affect, what better way out than <em>through<\/em> it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>During an ongoing ecological crisis, in which everything is at stake\u2026 a political re-imagining is necessary\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mce_39\"><strong>Tactical Delusion<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Reconceptualising \u201cdelusion\u201d opens an emergent space for tactical exploitation. In the case of the teen who stopped drinking water, his overconsumption of information online provoked an ecological imaginary in excess. Here, as new systems of thinking materialise, <em>delusion becomes a tactic<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a \u201cclimate emergency,\u201d a tactical delusion is a practice of and commitment to, what cultural critic T.J. Demos calls, a \u201clong environmentalism.\u201d Through tactical delusions, we decentralize the concept of self until it becomes a deep immersion into difference. With tactical delusions, we exploit apathy, conformity and normative thinking for imagination without restraint. And among tactical delusions, \u201cwe\u201d exploit human exceptionalism with intersectional thought for the possibility of radical ecological engagement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of an ongoing critical inquiry, I am interested in a queer approach to the decentralisation of the concept of self (Hermans, 1992) in the techno-ecological, in which the dominant logic of network dynamics and platform technologies converge with the ecological crisis. Through tactical delusions, what is a queer approach to techno-ecological encounters between human and nonhuman? Within the pressures of existing conditions, how can these concepts be adopted to re-imagine digital mediation and communication <em>vis-a-vis<\/em> technology and ecology?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an analysis of performance and drag artist Vaginal Davis\u2019s \u201cterrorist drag\u201d in \u201cThe White to be Angry,\u201d the late queer theorist, Jos\u00e9 Esteban Mu\u00f1oz, proposes a conscious repositioning of self as a resistance to the dichotomy of identification and counteridentification. As a queer person-of-color, Davis performs interrogative identities that challenge the oppressive discourse of white, heteronormative and masculine ideology in their performances (as \u201cClarence,\u201d for example, an ultra-right-wing butch militiaman). For Mu\u00f1oz, Davis\u2019s drag is a reconnaissance that adopts an <em>intersectional<\/em> strategy (Crenshaw, 1989), critically acknowledging the \u201ccopresence of sexuality, race, class, gender, and other identity differentials as particular components that exist simultaneously with each other.\u201d Mu\u00f1oz celebrates the complexity of Davis\u2019s \u201cdisidentification,\u201d which requires an immersion <em>of<\/em> dominant cultures as a subversion\u2014\u201cto <em>deny<\/em> the self\u201d first in order to find self within the dominant public sphere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mu\u00f1oz\u2019s analysis contextualizes a queer sensibility when considering climate change-induced mania\u2014tactical delusions that conjure uncommon-sensing as common sense. As a tactical delusion, I propose <em>thought-queering<\/em> as a mode of affective analysis during a crisis in affect: a practice of occupying a plurality of positions in order to intercept oppressive and repressive representations hidden in the information and concealed through the narrative, disassembling and reassembling them as utility instead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/adjacent\/issue-7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/05\/TalkToMe.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1147\"\/><figcaption> <br><em><strong>Fig. 4.<\/strong> Still image from the video documentation of RIXC\u2019s Talk to Me (2011-2013). The Latvian artist collective experiments with plant growth, using networked technologies and computation. Here, one of the artists sends a message via mobile phone to communicate to a tomato plant remotely. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thought-queering is intersectional, non-binary thinking\u2014a piercing-through of borders for relational <em>trans<\/em>-embeddedness between self-with-other, human-with-more-than-human. It is a practice of living a multiplicitous difference with class, race, gender, sexuality and ability; for a collective ecological imaginary with human and nonhuman. Thought-queering is to pivot in critical techno-ecological thinking. And if the imposed dominant logic is failing, thought-queering, as a practice in emergent communication, exploits that failure as means for subversion.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 2011 and 2013, in a project titled <em>Talk to Me<\/em>, the Latvian art collective RIXC (Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits) explored human-plant communication based on the claim that if humans talked to plants, the plants would grow better. The collective developed a text-to-speech interface that was accessible online, which transcribed typed messages into an automated voice that spoke from a machine hovered over a plant.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an example of thought-queering, <em>Talk to Me<\/em> uses delusion as a tactic for emergent communication, enacting the decentralisation of self through computational utility. By establishing a network protocol for plant growth and interaction, the ecological imaginary enacted is a re-valuation of relational processes between human and more-than-human. Here, the complexity of emergence determines the capacity to relate in more-than-human worlds for <em>trans<\/em>-embeddedness and radical inclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an age of crisis, thought-queering, as a tactical delusion, adopts an ecological imaginary with little restraint. The practice recognises the dominance of existing communication infrastructures and its capacity to marginalise stealthily in our encounters with information. In an age of crisis, the boy who stopped drinking water served a tactical delusion, thought-queering his position as a sacrifice for the many and triggering an urgency toward the potential for drastic action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<span class=\"article__caption -is-empty\" data-src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/423283602\" data-index=\"3\"><\/span>\n\n<div class=\"video-holder -is-iframe-layout\" style=\"padding:176.94% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/423283602?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mce_48\"><strong>The End<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, think again about the last conversation you had with friends or family, the most recent article you read online, or the latest thing you saw in the media about the climate crisis\u2014any crisis. How does it make you feel? And if the immediate urge towards action now seems misdirected, how would you re-imagine it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"article__footnote-title\">Works Cited<\/h3>\n<div class=\"article__footnotes\">\n\n   <p class=\"article__footnote\">Albrecht, Glenn, Gina-Maree Sartore, Linda Connor, Nick Higginbotham, Sonia Freeman, Brian Kelly, Helen Stain, Anne Tonna, and Georgia Pollard. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10398560701701288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Solastalgia: The Distress Caused by Environmental Change,&#8221;<\/a><\/i> Australasian Psychiatry 15, no. 1_suppl (2007): S95-98.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nAmerican Psychiatric Association. \u201cSchizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders.\u201d In <i>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders<\/i> Fifth Edition (DSM-5). Washington, D.C. and London: American Psychiatric Publishing, 2013.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nBerardi, Franco \u201cBifo.\u201d <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-flux.com\/journal\/100\/268601\/game-over\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cGame Over.\u201d<\/a><\/i> e-flux, May 2019.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nChinchar, Allison. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/21\/weather\/miami-freeze-falling-iguana-forecast-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cNational Weather Service Warns of Falling Iguanas.\u201d<\/a><\/i> CNN Edition, January 22, 2020. \n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nClimate Change Commission (Office of the President of the Philippines). <i><a href=\"https:\/\/climate.gov.ph\/files\/CC_Executive-Brief_V32.compressed.pdf\">\u201cClimate Change and the Philippines: Executive Brief No. 2018-01.\u201d<\/a><\/i> Accessed February 10, 2020. \n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nDemos, T.J. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-flux.com\/journal\/104\/299286\/climate-control-from-emergency-to-emergence.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cClimate Control: From Emergency to Emergence.\u201d<\/a><\/i> e-flux, November 2019.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nDerrida, Jacques, and Bernard Stiegler. <i>Echographies of Television: Filmed Interviews.<\/i> Translated by Jennifer Bajorek. Cambridge, Oxford and Malden: Polity Press, 1996.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\n<i>Guardian News.<\/i> <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UafnckXiUjs.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cBride wades up the aisle during Philippines flood.\u201d<\/a><\/i> Accessed June 10.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nHermans, Hubert. \u201cThe Dialogical Self: Toward a Theory of Personal and Cultural Positioning.\u201d <i>Culture &amp; Psychology<\/i>, no. 7 (2001): 243-281. \n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nHenning-Santiago, Amanda Luz. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/bride-walks-down-aisle-flooded-wedding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cBride doesn&#8217;t let a flood get in the way of her wedding.\u201d<\/a><\/i> <i>MashableUK<\/i>, August 13, 2018. \n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nIqbal, Nosheen. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/jul\/13\/extinction-rebellion-kick-off-weekend-of-protest-with-dalston-blockade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cExtinction Rebellion kick off weekend of protest with Dalston blockade.\u201d<\/a><\/i> <i>The Guardian<\/i>, July 13, 2019.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nJBA Risk Management. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jbarisk.com\/news-blogs\/tropical-storm-yagi-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cTropical Storms Yagi Brings Floods to the Philippines.\u201d<\/a><\/i> Accessed February 5, 2020.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nKeeling, Kara. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/cj.2014.0004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cQueer OS,\u201d<\/a><\/i> <i>Cinema Journal<\/i> 53, no. 2 (Winter 2014): 152-157. Project MUSE. \n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nLertzman, Renee. <i>Environmental Melancholia: Psychoanalytic Dimensions of Engagement.<\/i> London and New York: Routledge, 2015.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nManjoo, Farhad. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/13\/opinion\/aliens-climate-change.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cPretend It\u2019s Aliens.\u201d<\/a><\/i> <i>New York Times<\/i>, February 13, 2019.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nMann, Michael E., Susan Joy Hassol, and Tom Toles, <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/doomsday-scenarios-are-as-harmful-as-climate-change-denial\/2017\/07\/12\/880ed002-6714-11e7-a1d7-9a32c91c6f40_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.164dab8ba196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cDoomsday scenarios are as harmful as climate change denial.\u201d<\/a><\/i> <i>The Washington Post<\/i>, July 12, 2017. \n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nMu\u00f1oz, Jos\u00e9 Esteban. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi:10.2307\/466735\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201c\u2018The White to be Angry\u2019: Vaginal Davis\u2019s Terrorist Drag.\u201d<\/a><\/i> <i>Social Text<\/i> 52, no. 53 (1997): 81-103.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nMurray, Jessica, and Matthew Taylor. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/feb\/10\/overwhelming-and-terrifying-impact-of-climate-crisis-on-mental-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201c\u2018Overwhelming and terrifying\u2019: the rise of climate anxiety.\u201d<\/a><\/i> <i>The Guardian<\/i>, February 10, 2020.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nO\u2019Neill, Saffron, and Sophie Nicholson-Cole. <i><a href=\"\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1075547008329201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201c\u2018Fear Won&#8217;t Do It\u2019: Promoting Positive Engagement With Climate Change Through Visual and Iconic Representations.\u201d<\/a><\/i> <i>Science Communication<\/i> 30, no. 3 (January 2009): 355-379.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nPainter, James. <i>Climate Change in the Media: Reporting Risk and Uncertainty.<\/i> London:New York: I.B. Tauris &amp; Co. Ltd, 2013.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nRIXC. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/38419738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cTALK TO ME. plant communication project,\u201d<\/a><\/i> 2011-2012. Video, duration 4:58 minutes. Accessed July 12, 2019.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nSalo, Robert, and Joshua Wolf. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00048670701881603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cWater, Water, Everywhere, Nor any Drop to Drink: Climate Change Delusion.\u201d<\/a><\/i> <i>Australian &amp; New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry<\/i> 42, no. 4 (January 2008): 350. \n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nSculthorpe, Tim, and David Wilcock. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6874105\/Semi-naked-climate-change-protesters-interrupt-Commons-debate-Brexit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cSemi-naked climate change protesters interrupt Commons debate on Brexit as they storm public gallery and GLUE themselves to the glass protecting MPs (and Ed Miliband can&#8217;t believe his eyes).\u201d<\/a><\/i> <i>Daily Mail<\/i>, April 2, 2019.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nTorre, Giovanni. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/01\/05\/thousands-koalas-burn-death-australia-fears-native-wildlife\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cThousands of koalas burn to death as Australia fears native wildlife may never recover from bush fire [sic] disaster.\u201d<\/a><\/i> <i>The Telegraph<\/i>, January 5, 2020.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article__footnote\">\nWallace-Wells, David. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/16\/opinion\/sunday\/fear-panic-climate-change-warming.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cTime to Panic.\u201d<\/a><\/i> <i>New York Times<\/i>, February 16, 2019.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Think of the last conversation you had with friends or family, the most recent article you read online, or the latest report you saw in the media about the climate crisis. 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