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

Events (from the introduction):
at the Zollo Collective:
<a href='https://www.instagram.com/zollo.hamburg/?hl=en'>https://www.instagram.com/zollo.hamburg/?hl=en</a>

at La Band Varga:
<a href='https://labandavaga.org/?page_id=102'>https://labandavaga.org/?page_id=102</a>

Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland:
<a href='https://www.instagram.com/zollo.hamburg/?hl=en'>https://resuso.ch/</a>
 
Shownotes

Anna Kornbluh’s personal website (including all her publications):
<a href='http://www.annakornbluh.com/'>http://www.annakornbluh.com/</a>

Anna at the University of Illinois Chicago:
<a href='https://engl.uic.edu/profiles/kornbluh-anna/'>https://engl.uic.edu/profiles/kornbluh-anna/</a>

Kornbluh, A. (2024). Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism. Verso Books.
<a href='https://www.versobooks.com/products/3031-immediacy-or-the-style-of-too-late-capitalism'>https://www.versobooks.com/products/3031-immediacy-or-the-style-of-too-late-capitalism</a>

Kornbluh, A. (2023). We Didn’t Start The Fire. Death Drive and Ecocide. Parapraxis Magazine Issue 3.
<a href='https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/we-didnt-start-the-fire'>https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/we-didnt-start-the-fire</a>

Kornbluh, A. (2020). Climate Realism, Capitalist and Otherwise. Mediations. Journal of the Marxist Literary Group. Vol. 33. No. 1-2. P. 99-118.
<a href='https://mediationsjournal.org/articles/climate-realism'>https://mediationsjournal.org/articles/climate-realism</a>

Kornbluh, A. (2019). The Order of Forms. Realism, Formalism, and Social Space. University of Chicago Press.
<a href='https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo44521006.html'>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo44521006.html</a>

Groos, J., Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press
<a href='https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction'>https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction</a>

on Alexis Pauline Gumbs:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Pauline_Gumbs'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Pauline_Gumbs</a>
<a href='https://www.alexispauline.com/'>https://www.alexispauline.com/</a>

her essay on the Maui wildfires:
<a href='https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a44819303/climate-crisis-maui/'>https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a44819303/climate-crisis-maui/</a>

 on climate fiction (cli-fi):
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_fiction'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_fiction</a>

Rebecca Saltzman:
<a href='https://rebeccasaltzman.net/'>https://rebeccasaltzman.net/</a>

Haraway, D. J. (2016). Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.
<a href='https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble'>https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble</a>

Tsing, A. L. (2021). The Mushroom at the End of the World. On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press.
<a href='https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220550/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world'>https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220550/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world</a>

on the genre of the Heist film:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heist_film'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heist_film</a>

on “Logan Lucky”:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Lucky'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Lucky</a>

Strange, S. (2015). Casino Capitalism. Manchester University Press.
<a href='https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784991340/'>https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784991340/</a>

Edward Morgan Forster on Narrative:
<a href='https://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/04/e-m-forster-the-difference-between-story-and-plot/'>https://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/04/e-m-forster-the-difference-between-story-and-plot/</a>

on climate/eco-anxiety:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-anxiety'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-anxiety</a>

Spufford, F. (2012). Red Plenty. Graywolf Press.
<a href='https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/red-plenty'>https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/red-plenty</a>

explanation “hypersititon”:
<a href='https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyperstition'>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyperstition</a>

on Kim Stanley Robinson:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson</a>

Robinson, K. S. (2020). The Ministry for the Future. Orbit.
<a href='https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/the-ministry-for-the-future'>https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/the-ministry-for-the-future</a>

Robinson, K. S. (2017). New York 2140. Orbit.
<a href='https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/new-york-2140'>https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/new-york-2140</a>

on the Inflation Reduction Act:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act</a>

on the Green New Deal:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal</a>

website of Daniel Aldana Cohen (including all his publications):
<a href='https://aldanacohen.com/'>https://aldanacohen.com/</a>

Climate & Community Institute:
<a href='https://climateandcommunity.org/'>https://climateandcommunity.org/</a>

“A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” video from 2019:
<a href='https://youtu.be/d9uTH0iprVQ?si=8O-M_fS2iO_AQhiL'>https://youtu.be/d9uTH0iprVQ?si=8O-M_fS2iO_AQhiL</a>

Aronoff, K., Battistoni, A., Cohen, D. A., & Riofrancos, T. (2019). A Planet to Win. Why We Need a Green New Deal. Verso Books.
<a href='https://www.versobooks.com/products/2546-a-planet-to-win'>https://www.versobooks.com/products/2546-a-planet-to-win</a>

Klein, N., Taylor, A. (2025). The Rise of End Times Fascism. The Guardian.
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk'>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk</a>

on the Zohran Mamdani campaign:
<a href='https://www.zohranfornyc.com/'>https://www.zohranfornyc.com/</a>

on Social Realism:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_realism'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_realism</a>

on Brandon Taylor:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Taylor_(writer)'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Taylor_(writer)</a>
his website:
<a href='https://brandonlgtaylor.com/'>https://brandonlgtaylor.com/</a>

on Colson Whitehead:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colson_Whitehead'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colson_Whitehead</a>
his website:
<a href='https://www.colsonwhitehead.com/'>https://www.colsonwhitehead.com/</a>

on “Succession”:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_(TV_series)'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_(TV_series)</a>

on “Somebody Somewhere”:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Somewhere_(TV_series)'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Somewhere_(TV_series)</a>

on public luxury:
<a href='https://communia.de/en/project/public-luxury/'>https://communia.de/en/project/public-luxury/</a>
<a href='https://autonomy.work/portfolio/public-luxury-in-practice/'>https://autonomy.work/portfolio/public-luxury-in-practice/</a>

Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso Books.
<a href='https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal'>https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal</a>

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s website:
<a href='http://www.olufemiotaiwo.com/'>http://www.olufemiotaiwo.com/</a>
Táíwò, O. (2020). Who gets to feel secure? On Liberty, Security, and Our System of Racial Capitalism. Aeon.
<a href='https://aeon.co/essays/on-liberty-security-and-our-system-of-racial-capitalism'>https://aeon.co/essays/on-liberty-security-and-our-system-of-racial-capitalism</a>

Boston Review issue on “What is the State for?”:
<a href='https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/from-the-editors-what-is-the-state-for/'>https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/from-the-editors-what-is-the-state-for/</a>

on Freud’s concept of the Death drive:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_drive'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_drive</a>



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

Democratic planning – an information website
<a href='https://www.democratic-planning.com/'>https://www.democratic-planning.com/</a>

Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
<a href='https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1'>https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1</a>

Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: <a href='mailto:amber.lanfranchi@bristol.ac.uk'>amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk</a>]
<a href='https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction'>https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction</a>

International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
<a href='https://www.indep.network/'>https://www.indep.network/</a>

Democratic Planning Research Platform:
<a href='https://www.planningresearch.net/'>https://www.planningresearch.net/</a>
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