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A Call to Recognise and to Imagine: Amitav Ghosh, and Others, on Writing the Earth Differently

The crises of the contemporary are severe, especially if we are unable to recognise how and when we went wrong. Amitav Ghosh teaches us about recognition, about the dangers of modernity, and the way our blindness has been institutionalised in the petrocapitalist narratives that dominate
 scientific analysis and many forms of knowledge important to our times. Discussing the way petrocapitalism frames current issues like air pollution and the Fukushima disaster, this text highlights the art of recognising the state of the Earth. Together with the arts (primarily literature,
 as Ghosh also suggests), the aim of this text is then to place a greater emphasis on imagining the Earth otherwise, or, recognising a different earth. This way we do not so much critique modernity, or the petrocapitalist forms of science, but rather, affirmatively, search for an alternative,
 a more inclusive and less human-centred way to deal with the crises of the contemporary.