Environment and Urbanization

imagination is the ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise

and a fiercely loved daughter

Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn and Graham Swift’s Waterland to the archetypal ‘folk horror’ film The Wicker Man… Ghostland is Parnell’s moving exploration of what has haunted our writers and artists – and what is haunting him

CONTENTS * Navigating the Hill of Dreams: the Significance of Folk Horror in an Age of Ecological Breakdown - by L B Limbrey * Bodies of Water - Fiction by Sylvia Warren * Acid Renaissance: Albion’s True Standard Advanced - Art by Paul Watson * Cunning County by Emily Banting - Fiction by David Southwell

Critical Zones - The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth Michael Rosenlehner Environment and UrbanizationThis monumental volume, drawn from a 2020 exhibition at the ZKM Center for Art and Media, portrays the disorientation of life in a world facing climate change. It traces this disorientation to the disconnection between two different definitions of the land on which modern humans live: the sovereign nation from which they derive their rights, and another one, hidden, from which they gain their wealththe land they live on, and the land they live from.