ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how global warming is imagined to influence humanity’s relationship with the non-human world. The first is the imagination of catastrophic weather as a judgment. In those climate fictions that employ the imagination form the known is thus often transformed into something uncanny because the non-human world–that humanity has so far treated as a dead object–suddenly appears to have an agenda of its own. Indeed, instead of seeing the linkages between cultural historical narratives and the imagination of global warming as a chance to dismiss the importance of global warming as a real phenomenon, we should rather seeing the linkage as an imperative to do the opposite. In many of Bruno Latour’s texts global warming is presented as a phenomenon that illuminates the existence of a new communication relation. The Rapture advances a similar message, although the emphasis is here more strongly placed on the human responsibility that the new situation entails.
