tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670369139890322768.post3971661630017437592..comments2023-12-22T03:53:49.097+00:00Comments on The Scribbling Sea Serpent: Cli-Fi Authors: Natasha CarthewK M Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801740095715755112noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670369139890322768.post-69373275170609196012014-05-17T19:06:15.085+01:002014-05-17T19:06:15.085+01:00Good going Dan, - thanks for sharing :-)Good going Dan, - thanks for sharing :-)K M Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09801740095715755112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670369139890322768.post-77590502496665742332014-05-16T02:14:19.714+01:002014-05-16T02:14:19.714+01:00Rabbi Newman is Rabbi Emeritus at Hinchley Reform ...Rabbi Newman is Rabbi Emeritus at Hinchley Reform Synagogue in the UK and an active Twitter tweeter and when he heard about the new cli fi genre term, he sent me a message in just 140 letters or so that read: “Your coinage of cli fi is a brilliant and important reframing.”<br />Reframing, I said to myself, what does he mean by “reframing?” I took if that he meant something like cli fi was reframing the discussion over climate change and global warming, from a literary perspective, but I wasn’t sure because the word as Rabbi Newman used was new to me.<br />So I asked him for a clarification and an amplification.<br />In Internet time, the good rabbi wrote over the seas and over the wires that carry email messages here and there: “Dan, your research tells it all and I’m no expert. I came across ‘reframing’ in some research I was doing,” he wrote.<br />It turns out that Rabbi Newman is a longtime climate activist in Britain and understood right away what the cli fi genre term was set up to be. He calls it a “reframing” — a term I like — and he explains it this way:<br />”As I understand it — and used it when I first came across your term of ‘cli-fi’ – it means thinking about something in a new way. What is clever, to me, in the term cli-fi is the double-take, the fact that it makes you re-think, ie. reframe,” he wrote.<br />”First, it suggests that all this climate talk is a fiction…then I realize sci-fi is not a fiction but an imagining of the present into the future,” he added, noting: ”At another level, your work on cli-fi, of seeing a genre and stimulating cultural interest and awareness in the future we are creating, is also of great importance.”<br />”Dan, I’m delighted to have come across your work. Climate change is real, it is happening now, the implications and speed are far greater than most of us wish or are able to face. But there is also a speed of change in the other direction, though, in one sense, it is already ‘too late’. I am glad that my simple word — ‘reframing’ — caught your imagination.”<br />It sure did. And more than that, or in addition to that, I now have a new Twitter pal in London.DANIELBLOOMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130493903696077379noreply@blogger.com