CanLit and the Hyper-Modern 2
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Canadian letters has always been good at highlighting environmental issues; it’s not a controversial issue, and artists, by their nature, tend to be sensitive to ecological concerns.
However, concern is often contradicted by behaviour, especially when one’s career is at stake.
The reality is that conventional book production has a significant carbon footprint, and so does book promotion.
Yet authors need to make a living. How to square this circle?
CanLit and the Hyper-Modern 1
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AI is in the process of being replaced by artificial general intelligence — known by the acronym AGI.
Many novelists have dealt with this potentiality — most famously, perhaps, Arthur C. Clark in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Stanley Kubrick adaptation of that novel was so groundbreaking as a work of cinema that it’s eclipsed the novel’s place in the cultural firmament. But it was a novel that inspired the movie.
In Cdn letters, there have been speculative fiction examples. But not nearly with the same cultural impact. Why?
Happy that/ heureux que my brief VideoPoemSong entitled Who? What? To be screened at Minute Madness in Toronto.
COVID-19 is going to have an impact on all our lives, either directly through long term illness or indirectly through massive social cost. Yet we still understand very little about the origins of the disease and are not currently trying very hard. It may be that those origins are too obscure to ever be known. At the sane time, we pay very little attention to improved mitigation measures, and how we can prevent epidemic disease spread. That IS an area where we have some control. Yet we choose not to exercise this control.
If curious , YouTube link: https://youtu.be/wyEXTUYpwuE?si=U0si82Z2NcCe3mT9
Clip from Greening: Boiling Oceans.
Full video at YouTube: Greening Korea: Boiling Oceans
https://youtu.be/YgBivdKSzXo
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It’s unusually warm in Korea this autumn. Ocean surface temperatures have a lot to do with that.
#climatechange #carbonemissions #oceantemperature
