Guest edited by Corinna Kirsch (Pratt Institute) and Rebecca Uliasz (University of Michigan), this special issue of Media-N titled As the World Burns: On Media and Climate takes up the ambiguous relation of the terms media and climate as a provocation for critical theoretical, historical, and artistic intervention. The articles, interview, and reviews in this issue ask: what are the aesthetic, cognitive, and social challenges posed by climate change? Which critical methods lend material specificity to the expansive entanglements of media and climate—across finance, technology, politics, colonialism, race, information, affect, and culture? With wide-ranging interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributions in this issue map new terrains in media and ecocriticism—revealing not just that media impacts environments, but that environments are deeply destabilized in ways that call forth perspectives on living in and through uncertain futures.

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