Title
The Sympoiesis of Clouds
Abstract
In this essay, I use performative writing as a framework to explore the problem of climate change. Specifically, the shifting and accumulative nature of clouds serves as a trope for imaginatively restaging environmental issues. In the essay, I view the environment as a symbolic and material construction that is coproduced in connection to the personal, discursive, and collective unconscious. Through narrative, poetry, and performance, I argue for the concept of environmental performativity as a metonym for exploring the interdependent relationship among the individual, environment, and climate change.
Department(s)
Communication
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.4.44
Keywords
Climate change, Environmental communication, Performative writing, Performativity, Posthumanism
Publication Date
12-1-2020
Recommended Citation
Collins, Christopher C. "The Sympoiesis of Clouds." Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 9, no. 4 (2020): 44-59.
Journal Title
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research
