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'Terraforming is happening now'
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
|February 01, 2025
On environmental disasters, migration and the truth within speculative fiction
How did you curate the essays / correspondence / presentations that make up Wild Fictions?
The process of curating Wild Fictions was deeply reflective, almost like sifting through sediments of time to uncover fragments that resonate with the present. The essays, correspondence and presentations were not chosen arbitrarily; bearing witness to the events of our epoch was an important connecting thread. Many of the essays in the collection grew out of the imperative to confront the realities of our age.
You note that Hurricane Katrina was a "catastrophic convergence", in Christian Parenti's words, informed by social and historical factors. Would you say the LA wildfires are also an example of this; in particular, of terraforming?
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