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This paper examines how the accelerating nature of climate change challenges the modes of visual culture of the Caribbean in the midst of the global boiling era. Facing the imminent threat of environmental catastrophe, the Caribbean must find more effective and faster ways to communicate environ¬mental concerns and mobilize climate action. Therefore, the essay argues that to mobilize climate action within the cultural landscape of the Caribbean, particularly in Puerto Rico, it is necessary to critically examines its inherited systems of repre¬sentation and devise a method for climate awareness. In light of today’s digital culture and the recent emergence of artificial intelligence, the essay explores the potential of AI-generated images as a suitable alternative for effective communication within Caribbean visual culture. Acknowledging the polemics around artificial intelligence and the significant social biases in datasets, the essay uses the existing limitations found in AI-diffusion models as a point of conflict to make intelligible the calamaties of Caribbean environmental history inter¬twined with the repecussions of a failed modernity rooted. The essay provide new insights into how images powered by AI-diffusion models – such as Midjourney – can help support a post-colonial method to address colonial legacies while fostering climatic imaginaries for near-futures, contributing to the discourse on visual culture and climate change. These premises are tested in “Las Delicias,” a post-colonial story that explores the strange event of a power outage caused by a heat wave leading to the appearance of enchanted ice in the public plaza of Ponce, imbued with uncanny memories of the past as reminders of the immediate present.

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