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SUMMARY:The utopia of vocation in climate fiction: weathering the future of
  work
DESCRIPTION:This paper explores the notion of vocation – the compulsion t
 o pursue a passion or calling for lasting meaning\, regardless of financia
 l reward\, as opposed to the imperative to labour as a livelihood\, or for
  survival – in two recent climate fiction novels\, C Pam Zhang’s The L
 and of Milk and Honey (2023) and Rebecca Campbell’s Arboreality (2022). 
 I understand climate fiction to be infused with speculation’s lingering 
 sense of conjecture as it offers a site for inventing other possible futur
 es\, a space to insist on the possibility that imagination can and does in
 tervene into economic life\, thus representing and critiquing the future o
 f work. This umbrella term ‘the future of work’ is increasingly used 
 in reference to the growing influence of automation and Artificial Intelli
 gence on existing jobs\, amplified by financialized capitalism. I take a d
 ifferent route by adopting a more capacious visioning of both the near and
  far future of work\, and investigate how the two novels represent labour 
 in pursuit of vocation under conditions of planetary ecological crisis. Th
 ese representations of work provocatively explore the intersection of colo
 niality and postapocalyptic pleasure – experienced through vocational as
 piration – while raising questions about the limitations of imagining th
 e future. 
X-ALT-DESC:<p>This paper explores the notion of vocation – the compulsion
  to pursue a passion or calling for lasting meaning\, regardless of financ
 ial reward\, as opposed to the imperative to labour as a livelihood\, or f
 or survival – in two recent climate fiction novels\, C Pam Zhang’s <i>
 The Land of Milk and Honey </i>(2023) and Rebecca Campbell’s <i>Arboreal
 ity</i> (2022). I understand climate fiction to be infused with speculatio
 n’s lingering sense of conjecture as it offers a site for inventing othe
 r possible futures\, a space to insist on the possibility that imagination
  can and does intervene into economic life\, thus representing and critiqu
 ing the future of work.&nbsp\;This umbrella term ‘the future of work’ 
 is increasingly used in reference to the growing influence of automation a
 nd Artificial Intelligence on existing jobs\, amplified by financialized c
 apitalism. I take a different route by adopting a more capacious visioning
  of both the near and far future of work\, and investigate how the two nov
 els represent labour in pursuit of vocation under conditions of planetary 
 ecological crisis. These representations of work provocatively explore the
  intersection of coloniality and postapocalyptic pleasure – experienced 
 through vocational aspiration – while raising questions about the limita
 tions of imagining the future.&nbsp\;</p>
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