| « As described in many climate change appeals, this home is a Western, urban, and domesticated home that more often than not seeks to extract itself from the weather-world. But we recall, too, that oikos is both «home» and another way of saying «eco.» In this paper we thus also invite our readers to be interpellated into the ecological spacetime of a much more expansive home, at once as distant as that melting icecap, and as close as our own skin. This home is a transcorporeal one, «where human corporeality is inseparable from ‘nature’ or ‘environment» (Alaimo 2008, 238). To bring climate change home, in this context, entails reconfiguring our spatial and temporal relations to the weather-world and cultivating an imaginary where our bodies are makers, transfer points, and sensors of the «climate change» from which we might otherwise feel too distant, or that may seem to us too abstract to get a bodily grip on. |
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We propose that if we can reimagine «climate change» and the fleshy, damp immediacy of our own embodied existences as intimately imbricated, and begin to understand that the weather and the climate are not phenomena «in» which we live at all where cli-mate would be some natural backdrop to our separate human dramas - but are rather of us, in us, through us, we might ignite the intensity that Colebrook calls for. »
Astrida Neimanis and Rachel Loewen Walker, Weathering: Climate Change and the “Thick Time” of Transcorporeality |
