Panel Proposal for “Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality”
2025 ASLE Biennial Conference
July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland

On August 3, 2019, a self-identified ecofascist murdered 23 people and injured 23 others in El Paso, Texas. Minutes before the murders, the perpetrator posted a manifesto to the online message board 8chan detailing his motives for targeting the “Hispanic invasion” supposedly precipitated by climate change. Taking climate change as the new frontier condition, the mass murderer projected himself into an imagined future where he …