Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Social Science, Future Studies, Essays
ISBN: 9781452954493
Google: pCl0DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2017-05-30T13:31:56.428208+00:00

ARTS OF LIVING

are necessary because of threats to our survival.

The livability of the earth is at stake—perhaps not for extremophile bacteria but for the many forms of life that humans and our companion species have learned to love. Mounting crises from chemical contamination, land grabs, and biodiversity loss are prompting interdisciplinary dialogues and urgent calls to action. The sheer magnitude of disruption has pushed scientists, artists, and humanists to reconsider relationships between nature and culture, subjects and objects of knowledge, heroes and ghosts of progress. A major challenge is how to think geological, biological, chemical, and cultural activity together, as a network of interactions with shared histories and unstable futures.

There is something mythlike about this task: we consider anew the living and the dead; the ability to speak with invisible and cosmic beings; and the possibility of the end of the world.

ARTS OF LIVING

ON A DAMAGED PLANET

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