Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Laughing and Crying : Absurdist Theatre, Science and Climate Crisis
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'Rapidly rising sea levels and temperatures, erratic and severe weather: we have made nature uncanny, broken and unpredictable. In his book Dark Ecology, eco-critical philosopher Tim Morton describes global warming as a “wicked problem for which time is running out, for which there is no central authority; those seeking the solution are also creating it” (37). Our modern plot has dark irony and repetition, paradox and illogic. The Anthropocene is absurdist.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Science Write Now Science, Humour and the Absurd no. 7 August 2022 25760684 2022 periodical issue

    'I’ve been thinking about what humour is, and what it means for something to be ‘funny’. There are definitely different kinds of funny depending on where you live—I know this as a midwestern American now living in Australia. Love you, Oz, but I will never understand Kath & Kim. (I am, however, with you on Team The Office UK.) '

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