Digital Anthropocene: Responses to Climate Chaos in the e-Novel, Popular Films and Viral Videos

• In Event: Understanding Digital Culture: Useful Tools and Inevitable Elisions

Abstract

In this paper I discuss the relationship of climate fiction and its various visions of disturbing futures to digital representations of climate chaos, climate “solutions,” and the question of collective response and resistance to destructive human practices and economic narratives. Digital works require both traditional literary exegesis and new forms of digital analysis ranging from computational investigations to utilizing visual and other emerging aesthetics. And, such analysis is always undertaken in the context of STS insights and perspectives.

Key Words: digital exegesis, agency, affordances, new media aesthetics

Author

• Steven Mentor, Evergreen Valley College