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    1. Jacob Remes‏ @jacremes 29 Dec 2021

      Watched "Don't Look Up." Still thinking about it, but early thoughts: it was much more about media than I expected; the president was much more Trumpian than I expected; it captured the dread of climate anxiety but not the uncertainty.

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    2. Jacob Remes‏ @jacremes 29 Dec 2021

      I think if the world's going to end, I'd prefer to know the date certain, rather than the slow uncertainty of climate change (and Covid). In that way the film's end of the world gives us the easy way out.

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    3. Jacob Remes‏ @jacremes 29 Dec 2021

      It also depicts a spectacular, disastrous end of the world with spiritual suffering but without physical suffering. The earth disintegrating with near instantaneous death for everyone means no starvation, no maimings from crushed concrete. Again, the easy way out.

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    4. Jacob Remes‏ @jacremes 29 Dec 2021

      Last semester when we were talking about disaster fiction in my critical disaster studies seminar, my students said they wanted their disaster and climate fictions to have (or contain) calls to action. I said I wanted fiction to help me imagine victory or reconcile to defeat.

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    5. Jacob Remes‏ @jacremes 29 Dec 2021

      My students recoiled and scolded me. We don't want to reconcile ourselves to the end of the world, they said, we want to fight back. But I liked how hopeless Don't Look Up is, how the concerts and protests (and unshown organizing) are well meaning but hopeless.

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    6. Jacob Remes‏ @jacremes 29 Dec 2021

      I will again recommend @billsquirrell's novel Strange Labour as a piece of fiction about reconciling oneself to the end of the world. https://bookshop.org/books/strange-labour/9781989274354 …. Don't Look Up also made me want to see Don McKellar's Last Night (1998) again.

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    7. Jacob Remes‏ @jacremes 29 Dec 2021

      Jacob Remes Retweeted Jacob Remes

      This point continues to makes me think about how disaster and climate change discourse have been fused, hiding how non-carbon human choices create disaster and also hiding non-spectacular climate suffering like droughts and heatwaves.https://twitter.com/jacremes/status/1476379194363887622?s=20 …

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      Jacob Remes @jacremes
      It also depicts a spectacular, disastrous end of the world with spiritual suffering but without physical suffering. The earth disintegrating with near instantaneous death for everyone means no starvation, no maimings from crushed concrete. Again, the easy way out.
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    8. Jacob Remes‏ @jacremes 29 Dec 2021

      Jacob Remes Retweeted hawoni

      On the other hand, maybe erasing the suffering helps us better to imagine the end of the world.https://twitter.com/llhklw/status/1476380903492374530?s=20 …

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      hawoni @llhklw
      Replying to @jacremes
      I like how surgically removing the prospect of suffering (a bang instead of a whimper, so to speak…) made it less overwhelming, and therefore more accessible. Imagining the suffering short circuits our brains.
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    9. Jacob Remes‏ @jacremes 29 Dec 2021

      One more thought: it’s striking how the rest of the world is depicted (especially in the flashy montages) and occasionally mentioned, but it is basically beside the point. The only real actor is the US, and that’s it.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Dec 2021
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      That's actually one big way it doesn't work as a climate allegory. USA won't be main actor in climate drama of the coming century.

      7:33 PM - 29 Dec 2021
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        1. Jacob Remes‏ @jacremes 29 Dec 2021
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          That’s a good point.

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