S03E44 - Anna Kornbluh on Climate Counteraesthetics

Anna Kornbluh on the prevalence of aesthetic immediacy and why we need climate counteraesthetics.

Events (from the introduction):

at the Zollo Collective:

instagram.com/zollo.hamburg/?hl=en

at La Band Varga:

labandavaga.org/?page_id=102

Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland:

resuso.ch (instagram.com/zollo.hamburg/?hl=en)

Shownotes

Anna Kornbluh’s personal website (including all her publications):

annakornbluh.com

Anna at the University of Illinois Chicago:

engl.uic.edu/profiles/kornbluh-anna

Kornbluh, A. (2024). Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism. Verso Books.

versobooks.com/products/3031-immediacy-or-the-…

Kornbluh, A. (2023). We Didn’t Start The Fire. Death Drive and Ecocide. Parapraxis Magazine Issue 3.

parapraxismagazine.com/articles/we-didnt-start…

Kornbluh, A. (2020). Climate Realism, Capitalist and Otherwise. Mediations. Journal of the Marxist Literary Group. Vol. 33. No. 1-2. P. 99-118.

mediationsjournal.org/articles/climate-realism

Kornbluh, A. (2019). The Order of Forms. Realism, Formalism, and Social Space. University of Chicago Press.

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo…

Groos, J., Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construc…

on Alexis Pauline Gumbs:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Pauline_Gumbs

alexispauline.com

her essay on the Maui wildfires:

harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a44819303/c…

on climate fiction (cli-fi):

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_fiction

Rebecca Saltzman:

rebeccasaltzman.net

Haraway, D. J. (2016). Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.

dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble

Tsing, A. L. (2021). The Mushroom at the End of the World. On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press.

press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220…

on the genre of the Heist film:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heist_film

on “Logan Lucky”:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Lucky

Strange, S. (2015). Casino Capitalism. Manchester University Press.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784991340

Edward Morgan Forster on Narrative:

aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/04/e-m-forster-th…

on climate/eco-anxiety:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-anxiety

Spufford, F. (2012). Red Plenty. Graywolf Press.

graywolfpress.org/books/red-plenty

explanation “hypersititon”:

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyperstition

on Kim Stanley Robinson:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson

Robinson, K. S. (2020). The Ministry for the Future. Orbit.

store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/the-ministry-…

Robinson, K. S. (2017). New York 2140. Orbit.

store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/new-york-2140

on the Inflation Reduction Act:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act

on the Green New Deal:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal

website of Daniel Aldana Cohen (including all his publications):

aldanacohen.com

Climate & Community Institute:

climateandcommunity.org

“A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” video from 2019:

youtu.be/d9uTH0iprVQ?si=8O-M_fS2iO_AQhiL

Aronoff, K., Battistoni, A., Cohen, D. A., & Riofrancos, T. (2019). A Planet to Win. Why We Need a Green New Deal. Verso Books.

versobooks.com/products/2546-a-planet-to-win

Klein, N., Taylor, A. (2025). The Rise of End Times Fascism. The Guardian.

theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/ap…

on the Zohran Mamdani campaign:

zohranfornyc.com

on Social Realism:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_realism

on Brandon Taylor:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Taylor_(writer)

his website:

brandonlgtaylor.com

on Colson Whitehead:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colson_Whitehead

his website:

colsonwhitehead.com

on “Succession”:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_(TV_series)

on “Somebody Somewhere”:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Somewhere_(TV_s…)

on public luxury:

communia.de/en/project/public-luxury

autonomy.work/portfolio/public-luxury-in-pract…

Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso Books.

versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-n…

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s website:

olufemiotaiwo.com

Táíwò, O. (2020). Who gets to feel secure? On Liberty, Security, and Our System of Racial Capitalism. Aeon.

aeon.co/essays/on-liberty-security-and-our-sys…

Boston Review issue on “What is the State for?”:

bostonreview.net/articles/from-the-editors-wha…

on Freud’s concept of the Death drive:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_drive

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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:

Democratic planning – an information website

democratic-planning.com

Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.

journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1

Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construc…

International Network for Democratic Economic Planning

indep.network

Democratic Planning Research Platform:

planningresearch.net

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