Books
Recently published:
A History of the Theories of Rain
鈥淐an you walk away from a climate?鈥� Maybe. But 鈥渋n the future / everyone will have their fifteen minutes of blame.鈥� A History of the Theories of Rain explores the strange effect our current sense of impending doom has on our relation to time, approaching the unfolding climate catastrophe conceptually through its dissolution of the categories of 鈥渕an-made鈥� and 鈥渘atural鈥� disasters. How do we go on with our daily lives while a disastrous future impinges upon every moment?
Collis provides no easy answers and offers no simple hope. What his book does instead is probe our current state of anxiety with care, humour, and an unflinching gazing into the darkness we have gathered around ourselves. All the while 鈥� in song, in lyrical outbursts, and in philosophical and speculative excursions 鈥� it asks what form a resistance to the tenor of these out-of-joint times might take. In doing so, it explores the links between the climate鈥檚 鈥渢ipping points鈥� and the borders which constrain those who are fleeing the disaster 鈥� including the plants, animals, and peoples forcibly displaced by a radically altered world ecology.