Charismatic Facts is a term and project inspired by “The Distance Plan #5 Charismatic Facts: Climate Change, Poetry, and Prose.” It’s a small publication with a bold, all-caps manifesto shouting on the cover. The case is made for “charismatic facts” as portable, quickly disseminating tools for climate activism. In the publication, authors Abby Cunnane, Lina Moe, and Amy Howden-Chapman, define a charismatic fact as “a conceptual framework, an open possibility for asking what language can accomplish, how climate facts can be honed and taken up for immediate use.”  Leveraging an un-leveraged information space –the great outdoors– my Charismatic Facts posters, transfer the information platform from the screen to real life. The digital fact has lost its integrity and its gravity. Drowned out by an incomprehensible number of facts and fake-facts, the internet has become a place so overloaded with information that a piece of language, however condensed and empirically true, becomes entirely illegible, disputable, unrecognizable, and entirely ignored. By bringing facts into the physical world, Charismatic Fact Posters aim to increase their communication, reception, and impact.

Charismatic Fact Posters          
A response to “Charistmatic Facts” by The Distance Plan
In Process 2022