LEADER 03770nam 22006735 450 001 9910793324703321 005 20210720025209.0 010 $a0-8232-8605-3 010 $a0-8232-8423-9 010 $a0-8232-8424-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823284245 035 $a(CKB)4100000007521295 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5639412 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002146264 035 $a(OCoLC)1083100204 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73202 035 $a(DE-B1597)555426 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823284245 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007521295 100 $a20200723h20192019 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aExterranean $eExtraction in the Humanist Anthropocene /$fPhillip John Usher 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (223 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aMeaning Systems 300 $aThis edition previously issued in print: 2019. 311 0 $a0-8232-8422-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tFigures --$tIncipit: From sub- to exterranean --$tChapter 1. Terra has standing --$tChapter 2. Terre's brilliant mines --$tChapter 3. Terra globalized --$tChapter 4. Sickly mountainsides --$tChapter 5. Demonic mines --$tChapter 6. Geomedia --$tChapter 7. Saline intimacies --$tExplicit --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aExterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By opening up a rich archive of nonmodern texts and images from across Europe, this work offers a bracing riposte to several critical trends in ecological thought. By shifting emphasis from emission to extraction, Usher reorients our perspective away from Earthrise-like globes and shows what is gained by opening the planet to depths within. The book thus maps the material and immaterial connections between the Earth from which we extract, the human and nonhuman agents of extraction, and the extracted matter with which we live daily.Eschewing the self-congratulatory claims of posthumanism, Usher instead elaborates a productive tension between the materially-situated homo of nonmodern humanism and the abstract and aggregated anthropos of the Anthropocene. In dialogue with Michel Serres, Bruno Latour, and other interdisciplinary work in the environmental humanities, Usher shows what premodern material can offer to contemporary theory. Examining textual and visual culture alike, Usher explores works by Ronsard, Montaigne, and Rabelais, early scientific works by Paracelsus and others, as well as objects, engravings, buildings, and the Salt Mines of Wieliczka. Both historicist and speculative in approach, Exterranean lays the groundwork for a comparative ecocriticism that reaches across and untranslates theoretical affordances between periods and languages. 410 0$aMeaning systems. 410 0$aFordham scholarship online. 606 $aEcocriticism 606 $aHuman ecology 610 $aAnthropocene. 610 $aEarly Modern. 610 $aExterranean. 610 $aExtraction. 610 $aExtractivism. 610 $aHumanism. 610 $aLatour. 610 $aMining. 610 $aPosthumanism. 615 0$aEcocriticism. 615 0$aHuman ecology. 676 $a809/.9336 700 $aUsher$b Phillip John$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01145188 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793324703321 996 $aExterranean$93680504 997 $aUNINA