Weathering - Climate Change and the “Thick Time” of Transcorporeality

Summary

Feminist scholars Astrida Neimanis and Rachel Loewen Walker argue that, in the privileged West, climate change feels “distant and abstracted” from the weather we live in, told as a future to control or a past to save. Their ‘thick time’ treats our bodies “as archives of climate” and as makers of climates to come: “Together we are weathering the world.”

Rationale

Swap climate for culture and this is close to how we see it: our bodies carry the culture we’re part of, and keep making it, whether or not we notice.