Arts of living on a damaged planet. Ghosts of the anthropocene ; Monsters of the anthropocene
Format:
Book
Title:
Arts of living on a damaged planet. Ghosts of the anthropocene ; Monsters of the anthropocene
ISBN:
9781517902360
9781517902377
Publication:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017
Physical Description:
Gix, G174, Mviii, M174 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
General Note:
Contains two volumes in one; text orientation for both volumes is inverted in relation to each other.
Contents:
Volume 1. Ghosts. Introduction : haunted landscapes of the Anthropocene / Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt, Anna Tsing, and Heather Swanson -- A garden or a grave? : the canyonic landscape of the Tijuana-San Diego region / Lesley Stern -- Marie Curie's fingerprint : nuclear spelunking in the Chernobyl zone / Kate Brown -- Shimmer : when all you love is being trashed / Deborah Bird Rose -- Future megafaunas : a historical perspective on the potential for a wilder Anthropocene / Jens-Christian Svenning -- Ladders, trees, complexity, and other metaphors in evolutionary thinking / Andreas Hejnol -- No small matter : mushroom clouds, ecologies of nothingness, and strange topologies of spacetimemattering / Karen Barad -- Haunted geologies : spirits, stones, and the necropolitics of the Anthropocene / Nils Bubandt -- Ghostly forms and forest histories / Andrew S. Mathews -- Establishing new worlds : the lichens of Petersham / Anne Pringle -- Coda : concept and chronotope / Mary Louise Pratt.
Volume 2. Monsters. Introduction : bodies tumbled into bodies / Heather Swanson, Anna Tsing, Nils Bubandt, and Elaine Gan -- Deep in admiration / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Symbiogenesis, sympoiesis, and art Science activisms for staying with the trouble / Donna Haraway -- Noticing microbial worlds : the postmodern synthesis in biology / Margaret McFall-Ngai -- Holobiont by birth : multilineage individuals as the concretion of cooperative processes / Scott F. Gilbert -- Wolf, or, Homo homini lupus / Carla Freccero -- Unruly appetites : salmon domestication "all the way down" / Marianne Elisabeth Lien -- Without planning : the evolution of collective behavior in ant colonies / Deborah M. Gordon -- Synchronies at risk : the Intertwined lives of horseshoe crabs and red knot birds / Peter Funch -- Remembering in our amnesia, seeing in our blindness / Ingrid M. Parker -- Coda : beautiful monsters : terra in the Cyanocene / Dorion Sagan.
Summary:
Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent "arts of living." These essays posit critical and creative tools for survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key themes that also serve as the publication's two openings: Ghosts, or landscaped haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality.