a normalization of institutional deceit is extremely likely to result in irreparable environmental damage. More literally than ever, all that is solid melts into the air, there there has never been quite as much at stake in the very notion of truth and how truth can actually impact life on this planet on multiple registers.  

This issue of Antennae is the first of two instalments titled after a symposium I co-organized at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in collaboration with many likeminded colleagues who share similar concerns for the future of our planet. Truth.Climate.Now. creatively addressed recent discourses and practices that define our complex relationship with nature and culture in the current political moment. Much of its focus revolved around how notions of post-truth might impact the already complicated relationship between art and science. How might contested notions of truth shape essential research questions and methodologies? The representations, policies, and lived experiences of climate change inevitably became a point of culmination for all of these concerns. This issue and the next are in part directly informed by the content of the symposium and the events that surrounded it.