Climate Propagandas: Stories of Extinction and Regeneration
How climate propaganda narratives shape our (mis)understanding of the world, and how to propagate a future of repair and regeneration instead.

In Climate Propagandas, Jonas Staal reveals the propaganda narratives—and the divergent realities they evoke—that shape the climate crisis in the public imaginary. It is often said that the climate crisis is a planetary one, but the devastating impact of climate crisis is distributed unequally and its related ideological positions are as vast as they are irreconcilable. A liberal might argue the crisis is the result of individual consumer behavior, whereas a libertarian sees an opportunity for geoengineering markets. A conspiracist might not believe the climate is at risk, whereas an ecofascist sees a chance to double down on the argument about who has the superior racial right to survive extinction.

With an artist’s eye and an activist’s sense of urgency, Staal explores how these stories are told and visualized through popular film and television, internet culture, climate fiction, art, architecture, and industrial design. If life-threatening propaganda narratives have conjured our present climate catastrophe, Staal suggests, then surely stories of regeneration can propagate new planetary futures for all. His book identifies narratives that don’t follow the path of mass extinction, but rather seek repair and regeneration of a world in crisis.
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Climate Propagandas: Stories of Extinction and Regeneration
How climate propaganda narratives shape our (mis)understanding of the world, and how to propagate a future of repair and regeneration instead.

In Climate Propagandas, Jonas Staal reveals the propaganda narratives—and the divergent realities they evoke—that shape the climate crisis in the public imaginary. It is often said that the climate crisis is a planetary one, but the devastating impact of climate crisis is distributed unequally and its related ideological positions are as vast as they are irreconcilable. A liberal might argue the crisis is the result of individual consumer behavior, whereas a libertarian sees an opportunity for geoengineering markets. A conspiracist might not believe the climate is at risk, whereas an ecofascist sees a chance to double down on the argument about who has the superior racial right to survive extinction.

With an artist’s eye and an activist’s sense of urgency, Staal explores how these stories are told and visualized through popular film and television, internet culture, climate fiction, art, architecture, and industrial design. If life-threatening propaganda narratives have conjured our present climate catastrophe, Staal suggests, then surely stories of regeneration can propagate new planetary futures for all. His book identifies narratives that don’t follow the path of mass extinction, but rather seek repair and regeneration of a world in crisis.
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Climate Propagandas: Stories of Extinction and Regeneration

Climate Propagandas: Stories of Extinction and Regeneration

by Jonas Staal
Climate Propagandas: Stories of Extinction and Regeneration

Climate Propagandas: Stories of Extinction and Regeneration

by Jonas Staal

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How climate propaganda narratives shape our (mis)understanding of the world, and how to propagate a future of repair and regeneration instead.

In Climate Propagandas, Jonas Staal reveals the propaganda narratives—and the divergent realities they evoke—that shape the climate crisis in the public imaginary. It is often said that the climate crisis is a planetary one, but the devastating impact of climate crisis is distributed unequally and its related ideological positions are as vast as they are irreconcilable. A liberal might argue the crisis is the result of individual consumer behavior, whereas a libertarian sees an opportunity for geoengineering markets. A conspiracist might not believe the climate is at risk, whereas an ecofascist sees a chance to double down on the argument about who has the superior racial right to survive extinction.

With an artist’s eye and an activist’s sense of urgency, Staal explores how these stories are told and visualized through popular film and television, internet culture, climate fiction, art, architecture, and industrial design. If life-threatening propaganda narratives have conjured our present climate catastrophe, Staal suggests, then surely stories of regeneration can propagate new planetary futures for all. His book identifies narratives that don’t follow the path of mass extinction, but rather seek repair and regeneration of a world in crisis.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780262380867
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 09/17/2024
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 200

About the Author

Jonas Staal is a visual artist and propaganda researcher whose publications include Propaganda Art in the 21st Century (MIT Press) and, with coeditor Florian Malzacher, Training for the Future. With lawyer and academic Radha D’Souza, Staal cofounded the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) to prosecute climate crimes by states and corporations.

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“Jonas Staal teaches us how to recognize the various propaganda(s) that are competing to determine how we see our heating world. Even more, he inspires us to tell the new stories of life we will need to thrive together.”
—Jodi Dean, author of Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging
 
“A delectable read in which avant-garde performance art meets the Extinction Rebellion to forge a transformative climate agitprop in opposition to the all-powerful actors busily contributing to mass extinction. Staal proposes a new comradeship that bridges divides and brilliantly redefines emancipation as collective resistance to humanity’s greatest folly.”
—Yanis Varoufakis, MeRA25 leader; DiEM25 cofounder; Professor at the University of Athens; and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Kings College, University of London

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