TY - JOUR AU - Peinado Abarrio, Rubén PY - 2022/12/29 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - 'Fragmented and bewildering:' The new risk society in Jenny Offill's Weather JF - Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos JA - REN VL - 26 IS - SE - Special section DO - 10.12795/REN.2022.i26.11 UR - https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ESTUDIOS_NORTEAMERICANOS/article/view/21977 SP - AB - <p>US author Jenny Offill’s <em>Weather</em> (2020) shows her idiosyncratic take on the notion of risk society. In the novel and its accompanying website, Offill develops a type of anxious fragmentation as an answer to the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. A multiple text characterized by compulsive quotation and the formal influence of digital media, <em>Weather</em> is held together by a first-person confessional voice. Eventually, Offill manages to achieve a sense of interconnection through an aesthetics of the fragment thanks to a double movement: she favors a critical posthumanist perspective that understands the interrelational subject as constituted by interaction with multiple others, and she explicitly calls for collective action. Therefore, I conclude that <em>Weather</em> represents Offill’s both aesthetic and political quest, as she distinctly aspires to elicit an answer from readers in the form of social activism.</p> ER -