1. So I have some thoughts on Jonathan Franzen, climate change, The New Yorker, the Protestant and transcendentalist roots of American individualism, Fredric Jameson, E.B. White, and a few other things. Maybe Jack Kirby.
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11. We really don't have the luxury for fantasies of a cozy catastrophe, where global ecological collapse will return us to the comforts of small farm life and local democracy and Thoreauvian reveries over warblers. There's a world to save.
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12. I have some more thoughts here on where Jonathan Franzen is coming from and why he's wrong. https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-change-jonathan-franzen/ …
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In other words, a bourgeois hero whose wealth insulates them from the harms everyone else is exposed to.
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Yeah, “Omega Man” looked like he was having a great time.
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The early work of J.G. Ballard using ruthless parody of the cosy catastrophe as the launch pad for something else entirely …
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And Ballard, to join up the circle, was the inspiration, via HB Franklin, for the Jameson comment.
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This makes me want to read Aldiss and Wyndham novels. The Earth Dies Screaming seemed like a relatively cozy story of Brits confronting apocalypse with stiff upper lips.
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Wyndham will disappoint you in that case, the "cozy catastrophe" line was a very poor interpretation of his work
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Indeed, and it was a ridiculous claim to make of Wyndham's writing
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