CALIBAN N°65-66
PETERLOO 1819 AND AFTER: PERSPECTIVES FROM BRITAIN AND BEYOND
Années de crises: le massacre de Peterloo en Grande-Bretagne et dans le monde
The collective collection Caliban 65-66: Années de crises: le massacre de Peterloo en Grande-Bretagne et dans le monde/Peterloo 1819 and After: Perspectives from Britain and Beyond, published in November 2022 and edited by Rachel Rogers and Alexandra Sippel, contains, at the end of the issue, in a section devoted to reviews of scientific works on various themes, edited by Nathalie Rivère de Carles and Emeline Jouve, my review of the collective collection 21st Century Dylan. Late and Timely, edited by Laurence Estanove, Adrian Grafe, Andrew McKeown, and Claire Hélie and published by Bloomsbury, which offers many analyses with different approaches, around the cultural figure of Bob Dylan today, his activities, the evolution of his music, his cultural heritage, the way he manages his image as an aging legend, patriarch of folk and rock, etc.
Caliban 65-66's page on its publisher's website:
My text, as well as the whole issue, can also be read on line:
https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/10914
21st Century Dylan's page on its publisher's website: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/21stcentury-dylan-9781501363696/
CALIBAN N°63
DYNAMICS OF COLLAPSE IN
FANTASY, THE FANTASY AND SF
Dynamiques de l'effondrement dans le fantastique, la fantasy et la SF
Collective collection of texts on American, British, Irish, Quebec and Filipino literature and TV series (among others). The main dossier, made up of scholarly articles on the theme of societal and civilizational, environmental, economic and political collapse in works of science fiction, horror and fantasy, was edited by Florent Hébert and myself. It is followed by a section entitled "Detours" which includes reviews, small essays, poems and short stories, which was edited by Helen Goethals and James Gifford, and to which Mr. Hébert and I also contributed. Finally, a section of reviews of scientific works on various themes (edited by Nathalie Rivère de Carles and Emeline Jouve) concludes the collection, and includes a review of mine, which is in line with the themes of the other sections. To be published on 25 February 2021.
Back cover: While a variety of future-set science fiction focusing on the effects of climate change (commonly called "climate fiction" or "cli-fi") is developing, more and more voices are being raised, in the scientific community, no longer to prevent a distant apocalypse, but to take notice of a collapse (of climate, biodiversity, energy resources, hence thermo-industrial civilization) already underway. The purpose of this collection is to accomplish part of the technical and anthropological study of this context offered by theoreticians of systemic collapse, or "collapsologists", but to focus specifically on its impact on fantasy, the fantastic and science fiction. The studies featured in this book are about recent works that may have been influenced by the current context of ongoing collapse and about older works that are then re-read in light of the new context. They provide analyses developed from a collapsological perspective, and reflections on the concept of collapse.
The book's page on its publisher's website:
The whole issue can be read online, at this address:
https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/7118
The collective collection
Caliban 63: Dynamiques de l'effondrement dans le fantastique, la fantasy et la SF/Dynamics of Collapse in Fantasy, the Fantastic and SF, published in
January 2021 and edited by
Florent Hébert and myself, contains, after the thematic dossier of scholarly articles that we edited, a section entitled "Detours", edited by
Helen Goethals and
James Gifford, which includes reviews, small essays, poems and short stories on the same collapsological themes as the preceding scholarly papers. In this section, one can find my book review entitled "On Lionel Shriver's The Mandibles, A Family (2029-2047)".
In this review, I briefly analyze the links of Lionel Shriver's novel to the genres of science fiction, financial crisis fiction and family chronicle, as well as the way in which the novel dramatizes the author's libertarian ideology.
The book's page on its publisher's website:
https://pum.univ-tlse2.fr/produit/n-63-dynamiques-de-leffondrement-dans-le-fantastique-la-fantasy-et-la-sf/
My text, as well as the whole issue, can also be read on line:
https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/7834
Page of the novel
The Mandibles on the site of its publisher:
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-mandibles-lionel-shriver?variant=32205656129570
The collective collection
Caliban 63: Dynamiques de l'effondrement dans le fantastique, la fantasy et la SF/ Dynamics of Collapse in Fantasy, the Fantastic and SF, published in
January 2021 and edited by
Florent Hébert and myself, contains, at the end of the issue, a section devoted to reviews of scientific works on various themes, edited by
Nathalie Rivère de Carles and
Emeline Jouve, including
my review of the collective collection
Écrire la catastrophe: L'Angleterre à l'épreuve des éléments (XVIe-XVIIe siècles), edited by
Sophie Chiari and published by the University Press of Blaise Pascal Clermont Ferrand, which offers many analyses of texts from the period studied, sermons, emblematic poems, philosophical treatises, plays by Shakespeare and other authors of the time, or accounts of explorers' travels, thus forming a cultural panorama that shows the evolution from a vision of natural disasters as divine punishment, towards a progressively better understanding of the climate and meteorological issues related to these phenomena.
The book's page on its publisher's website:
https://pum.univ-tlse2.fr/produit/n-63-dynamiques-de-leffondrement-dans-le-fantastique-la-fantasy-et-la-sf/
My text, as well as the rest of the issue, can also be read on line: https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/8300
Page of the book
Écrire la catastrophe on the site of its publisher:
http://pubp.univ-bpclermont.fr/public/Fiche_produit.php?titre=%C3%89crire%20la%20catastrophe
FORMS OF DIPLOMACY (16th-21st CENTURY)
Formes de la diplomatie (XVIe-XXIe siècle)
