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How to Laugh at Climate Change
2014-05-16 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Yorker: In the nineteen-thirties, the literary theorist Kenneth Burke proposed what he called the "comic frame"-the view, he wrote, of "human antics as a comedy, albeit as a comedy ever on the verge of the most disastrous tragedy." Tragedy marches inexorably toward the end, but comedy keeps us guessing at our fate. Christina Foust, a communications professor at the University of Denver, points out that climate science, and climate news, is often presented as a tragic apocalypse: a fate foretold. (Earlier...
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