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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792965603321

Titolo

Arts of living on a damaged planet : ghosts of the anthropocene / / Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London, [England], : University of Minnesota Press, 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5179-0236-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Nature - Effect of human beings on

Human ecology

Global environmental change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Contains two volumes in one; text orientation for both volumes is inverted in relation to each other.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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 scope 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 lpus / 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.

Sommario/riassunto

Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability,Arts of Living on a Damaged Planetputs forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent "arts of living." Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication's two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste-in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch.