Tag: climate change

Extreme Weather as Everyday Genre in Subway Flood Videos
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez / University of Pennsylvania

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Juan Llamas-Rodriguez explores how subway flood videos transform extreme weather from spectacle into genre. As infrastructure crumbles under climate-induced disasters, viewers shift between individual frustration and collective crisis awareness. These videos blend intimate, smartphone-captured perspectives with a wider, omniscient view of urban vulnerability, bridging personal experience with public crisis. In doing so, they force audiences to confront their roles in a destabilising climate.

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Our Future is Garbage: Rejecting Climate Despair in Speculative Science Fiction
R Baker / University of California, Santa Barbara

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Baker discusses hope and despair in the face of climate crisis as manifest in science fiction media narratives, focusing on Pixar’s WALL-E (2008), Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968), and Rosaura Sanchez and Beatrice Pita’s Lunar Braceros: 2125-2148 (2019).

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