LEADER 03533 am 22005413u 450 001 9910765839103321 005 20221206104834.0 010 $a9781607853299 (ebook) 035 $a(CKB)3810000000000111 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001680348 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16496270 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001680348 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15028500 035 $a(PQKB)11334724 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00056343 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000000111 100 $a20160829h20142014 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#---uuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMinimal ethics for the anthropocene /$fJoanna Zylinska 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAnn Arbor, Michigan :$cOpen Humanities Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (152 pages) $cillustrations; digital, PDF file(s) 225 0 $aOpen Access e-Books 225 0 $aKnowledge Unlatched 225 1 $aCritical climate change 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [145]-152) 327 $a1. Grounding -- 2. Scale -- 3. Process -- 4. Evolution -- 5. Humanity -- 6. Ontology -- 7. Ethics -- 8. Poetics -- 9. Politics -- 10, Manifesting. 330 $a"Life typically becomes an object of reflection when it is seen to be under threat. In particular, humans have a tendency to engage in thinking about life (instead of just continuing to live it) when being confronted with the prospect of death: be it the death of individuals due to illness, accident or old age; the death of whole ethnic or national groups in wars and other forms of armed conflict; but also of whole populations, be they human or nonhuman. Even though Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene is first and foremost concerned with life--understood as both a biological and social phenomenon--it is the narrative about the impending death of the human population (i.e., about the extinction of the human species), that provides a context for its argument. "Anthropocene" names a geo-historical period in which humans are said to have become the biggest threat to life on earth. However, rather than as a scientific descriptor, the term serves here primarily as an ethical injunction to think critically about human and nonhuman agency in the universe. Restrained in tone yet ambitious in scope, the book takes some steps towards outlining a minimal ethics thought on a universal scale. The task of such minimal ethics is to consider how humans can assume responsibility for various occurrences in the universe, across different scales, and how they can respond to the tangled mesh of connections and relations unfolding in it. Its goal is not so much to tell us how to live but rather to allow us to rethink "life" and what we can do with it, in whatever time we have left. The book embraces a speculative mode of thinking that is more akin to the artist's method; it also includes a photographic project by the author."--Publisher's description. 410 0$aCritical climate change. 606 $aEthics 606 $aNature$xEffect on human beings on 606 $aHuman ecology 615 0$aEthics. 615 0$aNature$xEffect on human beings on. 615 0$aHuman ecology. 676 $a304.2 700 $aZylinska$b Joanna$f1971-,$0949993 801 0$bPQKB 801 2$bAuAdUSA 801 2$bUkMaJRU 912 $a9910765839103321 996 $aMinimal ethics for the anthropocene$93647991 997 $aUNINA