During the twenty-first century, Mexico has engaged in the incongruous behavior of positioning itself a leader in the fight against climate change while simultaneously escalating its extractions, according to Carolyn Fornoff, assistant professor of Latin American Studies. In a Chats in the Stacks book talk Fornoff discusses her new book, "Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change" (Vanderbilt University Press, 2024) which explores how contemporary Mexican writers, filmmakers, and visual artists have reacted to this contradiction, envisioning alternative ways of being in relation to the environment, not just as it is, but as it could or should be.
