Introduction: Imagining the unimaginable

Abstract

This book is an imaginative geography of “after” worlds ⋯ “after,” that is, another century of (a) profound climate change in the form of unprecedented anthropogenic planetarywarming and (b) an expanding and deepening “postmodern” culture-shift, one which already has begunto transmogrify modern assumptions in a way eerily reminiscent of how, five centuries prior, those then-new ways of mind and being consumed the seeds of tradition, habit, and belief and spit out strange fruit.