LEADER 05588nam 22005895 450 001 9910480604403321 005 20210715025111.0 010 $a0-8232-8259-7 010 $a0-8232-8260-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823282609 035 $a(CKB)4100000007179055 035 $a(OCoLC)1076829353 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse68835 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5607557 035 $a(DE-B1597)555319 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823282609 035 $a(OCoLC)1078570333 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007179055 100 $a20200723h20182019 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Unconstructable Earth $eAn Ecology of Separation /$fFrédéric Neyrat 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$d©2019 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aMeaning Systems 311 0 $a0-8232-8257-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. Reconstructing the Earth? --$tThe Copenhagen Chiasm --$tChapter 1. The Screen Of Geoengineering --$tChapter 2. The Mirror Of The Anthropocene --$tChapter 3. Teraforming --$tChapter 4. The Logic Of Geopower --$tTurbulence, Resilience, Distance --$tChapter 5. An Ecology Of Resilience --$tChapter 6. The Extraplanetary Environment Of The Ecomodernists --$tChapter 7. The "Political Ecology" Of Bruno Latour --$tChapter 8. Anaturalism And Its Ghosts --$tChapter 9. The Technological Fervor Of Eco-Constructivism --$tObject, Subject, Traject --$tChapter 10. Naturing Nature And Natured Nature --$tChapter 11. The Real Nature Of An Ecology Of Separation --$tChapter 12. Denaturing Nature --$tChapter 13. The Unconstructable Earth --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aWinner, Grand Prize, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation The Space Age is over? Not at all! A new planet has appeared: Earth. In the age of the Anthropocene, the Earth is a post-natural planet that can be remade at will, controlled and managed thanks to the prowess of geoengineering. This new imaginary is also accompanied by a new kind of power?geopower?that takes the entire Earth, in its social, biological and geophysical dimensions, as an object of knowledge, intervention, and governmentality. In short, our rising awareness that we have destroyed our planet has simultaneously provided us not with remorse or resolve but with a new fantasy: that the Anthropocene delivers an opportunity to remake our terrestrial environment thanks to the power of technology. Such is the position we find ourselves in, when proposals for reengineering the earth?s ecosystems and geosystems are taken as the only politically feasible answer to ecological catastrophe. Yet far from being merely the fruit of geo-capitalism, this new grand narrative of geopower has also been activated by theorists of the constructivist turn?ecomodernist, post-environmentalist, accelerationist?who have likewise called into question the great divide between nature and culture. With the collapse of this divide, a cyborg, hybrid, flexible nature has been built, an impoverished nature that does not exist without being performed by technologies that proliferate within the space of human needs and capitalist imperatives. Underneath this performative vision resides a hidden anaturalism denying all otherness to nature and the Earth, no longer by externalizing it as a thing to be dominated, but by radically internalizing it as something to be digested. Constructivist ecology thus finds itself in no position to confront the geoconstructivist project, with its claim that there is no nature and its aim to replace Earth with Earth 2.0.Against both positions, Neyrat stakes out the importance of the unconstructable Earth. Against the fusional myth of technology over nature, but without returning to the division between nature and culture, he proposes an ?ecology of separation? that acknowledges the wild, subtractive capacity of nature. Against the capitalist, technocratic delusion of earth as a constructible object, but equally against an organicism marked by unacknowledged traces of racism and sexism, Neyrat shows what it means to appreciate Earth as an unsubstitutable becoming: a traject that cannot be replicated in a laboratory. Underway for billions of years, withdrawing into the most distant past and the most inaccessible future, Earth escapes the hubris of all who would remake and master it. This remarkable book, which will be of interest to those across the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, from theorists to shapers of policy, recasts the earth as a singular trajectory that invites humans to turn political ecology into a geopolitics. 410 0$aMeaning systems. 606 $aEnvironmental engineering$xSocial aspects 606 $aConstructivism (Philosophy) 606 $aHuman ecology$xPhilosophy 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aUmU kursbok 615 0$aEnvironmental engineering$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aConstructivism (Philosophy) 615 0$aHuman ecology$xPhilosophy. 676 $a304.2/01 700 $aNeyrat$b Frédéric$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01028518 701 $aBurk$b Drew S$01031719 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480604403321 996 $aThe Unconstructable Earth$92449208 997 $aUNINA