That old saying says “The last one turns on the lights” It has little to do with the future of our planet. It is very possible that circumstances will no longer allow the last man or woman to extinguish this light because our technological society, if it does not take action, will have reached the limit of its maximum global development – there are too many people living in the world. planet – and this path of unlimited, broad and linear progress is bursting helplessly, taking away the balance of climate and the destruction of nature. Movies, television series and novels tell us every day. he ‘Collapse’‘Blackout’The first piece of Revelation written in the 21st century, great fear, is the main object of conscious science, but it is also the major theme of our current narrative.
Work in collective resistance
Collapsology, the science that studies the process, was born in France in 2011 within the Momentum Institute and was defined by its founder Yves Cochet as the study of processes that may cause nations to become unable to meet their needs. It is a critical situation that citizens get their basic needs at a reasonable price, which will increase the gap between the rich and the poor. It sounds terrible, but today it is not perceived as such an unrealistic possibility due to the covid pandemic that has forced the world economy to abrupt halt. French theorists Pablo Servigne and Raphael Stevens Made in 2015′science of collapse‘, an awareness guide aimed at new generations, which is a very informative starting point for thinking about the topic. Now a pair of cholapsologists join the biologist Gauthier’s Chapel later in that book ‘Another end of the world is possible’ (Harp) where they try to find solutions by discovering psychological, philosophical, artistic and even spiritual ways not to be destroyed before they are destroyed. “It’s not renunciation, self-absorption, or self-improvement, it’s the opposite. It’s about working on our collective resilience to shocks, trying new ways to live on the planet, creating new collective narratives, connecting with loved ones, other cultures, nonhumans,” they say online.
understand the truth
In the field of collective narratives that collapsologists point to as something important, how we tell ourselves stories to understand reality, literature is a good system for warning of danger, and it still has a lot to say. “Artists tend to have a talent for perceiving the winds of change and through their work they can raise awareness and bring about radical change,” says Pablo Servigne, The importance of the story is very important to whom. The essays, in which the author participated, served to promote the French television series. ‘Collapse’ and rebound the Spaniards “Blackout” Who smokes a successful podcast directly?
It is true that there are countless novels today that point to and recreate current and future environmental disasters, but the literature constructed as a warning was long gone. Here is a very clear example Margaret Atwood, when he published the first volume of his trilogy “Oryx and Crake” Later, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale was considered eccentric for his more explicit use of the tools of science fiction, which was considered a minor genre at the time. Four teenagers’ recounting of how they survived the collapse and their anxiety to create a new society didn’t sound so far off when the author ended the trilogy with these words: ‘MaddAddaM’‘ ten years later. It’s very simple, what was told in those novels could already be seen as a real possibility in the news. Meanwhile in 2006 cormac mccarthy gloomy bill ‘Path’, without leaving much room for hope of rebuilding the world. It was around these dates that a trend that erased the old boundaries between literary literature and science fiction and held the flag of thinking about the future more seriously than before, began to take shape for years. made the narrative more general. It should be noted here J.G. Ballard In the 60s, he created a trilogy such as ‘Sunken Earth’, ‘Drought’ and ‘Crystal Earth’, in which he dealt with the degradation of the ozone layer, water pollution and the extinction of animal species. takes on its disturbing meaning today.
ready for bookstores
The non-exhaustive list of what can be found in bookstores on the subject today would include ‘Ministry of the Future’ by Kim Stanley Robinson in the strictest sci-fi key: a Sarah Hall In “The Daughters of the North” she paints an enslaved and unstable England, not much different from John Lanchester’s “The Wall”; ‘District One’ with a double Pulitzer Colson Whitehead Before you internalize and how you internalize the term pandemic, imagine a world divided between the healthy and the sick; American Peter Heller renewing the old Robinsonian “last man alive” model with the impressive “constellation of the Dog”; Something similar to what Galloargentino Santiago H. Amigorena did ‘My last words’or the extraordinary ‘Cry of the Forest’, by Richard PowersA wonderful and tree-like literary reference to the environmental struggle. We must not forget the famous ‘Rescue Distance’ in Spanish and in the same narrative spirit. Samantha Schweblin anyone ‘To smoke’, José Ovejero’s penultimate title can be quoted in Catalan, with echoes of McCarthy’s “La carretera”Any of the plague’, by Marc Pastor; ‘Napalm al kor’, Pol Guasch and lately diatomBy Núria Perpignà, who does not portray the future with catastrophic implications.
One of the last published works “Temporary Shadows”, French-speaking Canadian Christian Guay-Poliquin (Volcano / Periscopi) closes the post-apocalyptic trilogy that culminated in the famous ‘Weight of Snow’. “Writing about oppression allows you to illuminate areas of our society that we take for granted and close our eyes to. It also allows you to imagine fewer artificial social relationships than we’ve ever had. I didn’t want to write a warning with my novels, but they inevitably contain a reflection of the old issue of what future we will leave for our children.