[...]... press in the very recent wake of the Japanese tsunami of late winter, 2011, at a moment of intriguing possibility in the Middle East, conditioned as ever, however, by the contingencies of multilateral intervention The individuals most deserving of the editor’s and contributors’ appreciation belong to the rhizomatically distributed collectivity of cultural scholars, critics, and theorists, whether in the. .. entitlement hint at a seachange in the name of a trope meant to ease anxieties and stay the course For the climate change afoot may not foretell an absolute beginning or end, but a refiguring of the social imaginary in this case that of nothing less than neo-liberalism itself It would seem to make all the difference in the world to present understanding if, rather than believing that we are being delivered... media as the army, the church, the school system, and the printing press We may have since graduated to a web of political and intellectual impasses rendered all the more exasperating through the encompassing invisibility powering and surrounding digital technology and relations We live amid the instantaneous simultaneity of “Real Time.” This heightens the inexactitude and even danger of rendering our... with increasing acceleration, are all acute and close readers schooled in several of the dominant theoretical paradigms through which the flows of power, money, information, memory, and material can be monitored The two companion volumes of Theory in the Era of Climate Change, emanate from a series of colloquia and workshops organized largely by one of the series co-editors, Tom Cohen, 2005–09, in diverse... By honing in on Martin Heidegger’s notion of worlding and its vacuous contrary moment (“unworlding”), Krzysztof Ziarek performs the significant service to the volume of raising the question of the current atmosphere or climate of post-global conditions The post-global is nothing if it has not had the effect of radically altering the mood of transactions in a terrestrial variance of locations (social... least in a general accord with the recent proliferation of successful if shortlived climate and social justice blockades in Germany (main rail line of Castor nuclear waste cargo), France (massive refinery strikes), England (road leading to Coryton refinery and over which 80% of all consumed oil in the U.K passes), Greece (blockade at the Acropolis), Impasses of the Post-Global tracks the spiraling and in. .. in diverse locations including Beijing, Albany, and Buffalo under the aegis of the Institute of Critical Climate Change In planning and coordinating these events, Cohen was aided and abetted locally, at his home institution, the State University of New York at Albany, by Mike Hill, the departmental chair (English) and Mary Valentis At the antipodal extreme of the SUNY system, the inaugural events were... as in communications and representation themselves Different ones of the following essays spill into each of the aforementioned zones Yet each one of these spontaneous groupings is itself a feedback loop winding its way back to the others comprising the collection Such is the interconnectivity of the stresses and insults that have been imposed on Gaia herself and the systemic organizations ensuing... intriguing than beginning to think, paralleling a notable phrase from Derrida’s Specters of Marx, the conditions for a “deconstruction without … Derrideanism.”5 In the wake of this presentation-piece, to the volume as well as to the IC3 project, the two most prominent feedback loops of articulation and response torquing the Impasses are one setting out from the apprehension of Gaia as an encompassing...Introduction Spills, Countercurrents, Sinks Henry Sussman and Jason Groves Virtual Post-Global Omnibus Impasses of the Post-Global considers a range of insults to the post-global Prevailing Operating System that is now broad enough to be bewildering This evident series of affronts extends from satellite photographs of Gaia to plastic bags accumulating along the shores of once-pristine inland Chinese . ones of the following essays spill into each of the aforementioned zones. Yet each one of these spontaneous groupings is itself a feedback loop winding its way back to the others comprising the. improvisation—as the materials comprising Impasses of the Post-Global may be, they arise out of a shared story about the failure of the master narrative of global- ization, whose outfall consists in the. class="bi x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" Impasses of the Post-Global Critical Climate Change S E: T C  C C e era of climate change involves the mutation of sys- tems beyond 20th