[Minorcompositions] Climate Chaos. Making Art and Politics on a Dying Planet

[Minor Compositions]

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*Climate Chaos. Making Art and Politics on a Dying Planet *
Neala Schleuning

Formulates an anarchist aesthetics exploring what art can mean in and do 
in the Anthropocene

Kant sought to contain the ancient fear and terror of the natural world 
in his concept of the sublime. He argued that with human reason we could 
safely confront an uncontrolled and powerful natural world. But today we 
no longer have the luxury of the Kantian sublime as we face the 
oppressive claustrophobic horror of drastic global climate change.

The earth itself is now threatened and livelihoods are more precarious. 
A new sublime incorporating the experience of awe and immensity – 
coupled with a profound respect for the presence of a great and 
unpredictable force of nature – can shape our response to the 
Anthropocene. Climate Chaos reassesses the Kantian sublime, opening up 
the opportunity to reconsider its dark side and our own fears, as we 
come face to face with the agency of nature beyond a rational response. 
Can we find ways to change our thinking, art, and politics to move 
beyond through the catastrophe of the present? A new aesthetics and a 
new political narrative of living in harmony with the earth is emerging.

Bio: Neala Schleuning is a writer and educator. She received her PhD in 
American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1978 with an 
emphasis in political philosophy and intellectual history.  Fulbright 
Scholar to the Russian Federation, she is the author of many articles, 
higher education policy papers, films and radio productions, and several 
books, including Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of 
Fragmentation (2013), America: Song We Sang Without Knowing (1983); Idle 
Hands and Empty Hearts: Work and Freedom in the United States (1990); 
Women, Community, and the Hormel Strike of 1985-86 (1994); and To Have 
and to Hold: the Meaning of Ownership in the United States (1997).

Release to the book industry May 2021

PDF available freely online: https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1008

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Release to the book trade May 2021

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Minor Compositions is a series of interventions
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avant-garde aesthetics, and the
revolutions of everyday life.

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