Anna Kornbluh on Climate Counteraesthetics

Anna Kornbluh on the prevalence of aesthetic immediacy and why we need climate counteraesthetics.Events (from the introduction):at the Zollo Collective:https://www.instagram.com/zollo.hamburg/?hl=enat La Band Varga:https://labandavaga.org/?page_id=102Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland:https://resuso.ch/ ShownotesAnna Kornbluh’s personal website (including all her publications):http://www.annakornbluh.com/Anna at the University of Illinois Chicago:https://engl.uic.edu/profiles/kornbluh-anna/Kornbluh, A. (2024). Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism. Verso Books.https://www.versobooks.com/products/3031-immediacy-or-the-style-of-too-late-capitalismKornbluh, A. (2023). We Didn’t Start The Fire. Death Drive and Ecocide. Parapraxis Magazine Issue 3.https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/we-didnt-start-the-fireKornbluh, A. (2020). Climate Realism, Capitalist and Otherwise. Mediations. Journal of the Marxist Literary Group. Vol. 33. No. 1-2. P. 99-118.https://mediationsjournal.org/articles/climate-realismKornbluh, A. (2019). The Order of Forms. Realism, Formalism, and Social Space. University of Chicago Press.https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo44521006.htmlGroos, J., Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Presshttps://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-constructionon Alexis Pauline Gumbs:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Pauline_Gumbshttps://www.alexispauline.com/her essay on the Maui wildfires:https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a44819303/climate-crisis-maui/ on climate fiction (cli-fi):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_fictionRebecca Saltzman:https://rebeccasaltzman.net/Haraway, D. J. (2016). Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-troubleTsing, A. L. (2021). The Mushroom at the End of the World. On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press.https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220550/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-worldon the genre of the Heist film:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heist_filmon “Logan Lucky”:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_LuckyStrange, S. (2015). Casino Capitalism. Manchester University Press.https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784991340/Edward Morgan Forster on Narrative:https://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/04/e-m-forster-the-difference-between-story-and-plot/on climate/eco-anxiety:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-anxietySpufford, F. (2012). Red Plenty. Graywolf Press.https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/red-plentyexplanation “hypersititon”:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyperstitionon Kim Stanley Robinson:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_RobinsonRobinson, K. S. (2020). The Ministry for the Future. Orbit.https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/the-ministry-for-the-futureRobinson, K. S. (2017). New York 2140. Orbit.https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/new-york-2140on the Inflation Reduction Act:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Acton the Green New Deal:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Dealwebsite of Daniel Aldana Cohen (including all his publications):https://aldanacohen.com/Climate & Community Institute:https://climateandcommunity.org/“A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” video from 2019:https://youtu.be/d9uTH0iprVQ?si=8O-M_fS2iO_AQhiLAronoff, K., Battistoni, A., Cohen, D. A., & Riofrancos, T. (2019). A Planet to Win. Why We Need a Green New Deal. Verso Books.https://www.versobooks.com/products/2546-a-planet-to-winKlein, N., Taylor, A. (2025). The Rise of End Times Fascism. The Guardian.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-muskon the Zohran Mamdani campaign:https://www.zohranfornyc.com/on Social Realism:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_realismon Brandon Taylor:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Taylor_(writer)his website:https://brandonlgtaylor.com/on Colson Whitehead:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colson_Whiteheadhis website:https://www.colsonwhitehead.com/on “Succession”:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_(TV_series)on “Somebody Somewhere”:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Somewhere_(TV_series)on public luxury:https://communia.de/en/project/public-luxury/https://autonomy.work/portfolio/public-luxury-in-practice/Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso Books.https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontalOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s website:http://www.olufemiotaiwo.com/Táíwò, O. (2020). Who gets to feel secure? On Liberty, Security, and Our System of Racial Capitalism. Aeon.https://aeon.co/essays/on-liberty-security-and-our-system-of-racial-capitalismBoston Review issue on “What is the State for?”:https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/from-the-editors-what-is-the-state-for/on Freud’s concept of the Death drive:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_driveFuture Histories Episodes on Related TopicsS3E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Declinehttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e32-jacob-blumenfeld-on-climate-barbarism-and-managing-decline/S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginarieshttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e30-matt-huber-kohei-saito-on-growth-progress-and-left-imaginaries/S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdownhttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e23-andreas-malm-on-overshooting-into-climate-breakdown/S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planninghttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/S03E02 | George Monbiot on Public Luxuryhttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e02-george-monbiot-on-public-luxury/S02E27 | Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunismhttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e27-nick-dyer-witheford-on-biocommunism/S02E18 | Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese on Half Earth Socialismhttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e18-drew-pendergrass-and-troy-vettese-on-half-earth-socialism/S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futureshttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/---If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:Democratic planning – an information websitehttps://www.democratic-planning.com/Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-constructionInternational Network for Democratic Economic Planninghttps://www.indep.network/Democratic Planning Research Platform:https://www.planningresearch.net/---Future Histories Contact & SupportIf you like Future Histories, please consider supporting us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistoriesContact: [email protected]: https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistoriesEnglish webpage:https://futurehistories-international.com Episode Keywords#AnnaKornbluh, #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #futurehistoriesinternational, #DemocraticPlanning, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #FutureImaginaries, #Art, #Literature, #Representation, #Immediacy, #ClimateChange, #ClimateBreakdown, #ClimateCollapse, #Capitalism, #Economics, #Collapse, #GreenNewDeal, #ClimateAnxiety