Introduction

imagining the unimaginable

Jim Norwine

pp. 1-11

in: Jim Norwine (ed), A world after climate change and culture-shift, Berlin, Springer, 2014

Abstract

This book is an imaginative geography of "after" worlds … "after," that is, another century of (a) profound climate change in the form of unprecedented anthropogenic planetary warming and (b) an expanding and deepening "postmodern" culture-shift, one which already has begun to transmogrify modern assumptions in a way eerily reminiscent of how, five centuries prior, those then-new ways of mind and being consumed the seeds of tradition, habit, and belief and spit out strange fruit.