Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene by [Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, Heather Anne Swanson]
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$28.01Living 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 Planet puts 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.
Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U.
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"Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet exposes us to the active remnants of gigantic past human errors--the ghosts--that affect the daily lives of millions of people and their co-occurring other-than-human life forms. Challenging us to look at life in new and excitingly different ways, each part of this two-sided volume is informative, fascinating, and a source of stimulation to new thoughts and activisms. I have no doubt I will return to it many times."--Michael G. Hadfield, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
"Facing the perfect storm strangely named the Anthropocene, this book calls its readers to acknowledge and give praise to the many entangled arts of living which made this planet liveable and which are now unravelling. Grandiose guilt will not do, we need to learn noticing what we were blind to, a humble but difficult art. The unique welding of scholarship and affect achieved by the texts here assembled tells us that learning this art also means allowing oneself to be touched and induced to think and imagine by what touches us."--Isabelle Stengers, author of Cosmopolitics I and Cosmopolitics II
"What an inventive, fascinating book about landscapes in the anthropocene! Between these book covers, rightside-up, upside-down, a concatenation of social science and natural science, artwork and natural science, ghosts of departed species and traces of our own human shrines to memory... Not a horror-filled glimpse at destruction but also not a hymn to romantic wilderness. Here, guided by a remarkable and remarkably diverse set of guides, we enter into our planetary environments as they stand, sometimes battered, sometimes resilient, always riveting in their human--and non-human--richness. Arts of Living On a Damaged Planet is truly a book for our time."--Peter Galison, Harvard University
"Calling a book 'mandatory reading' usually feels hyperbolic, but it's justified in the case of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. A stunning collection of essays from scientists, writers and artists on humankind's impact on the planet, and how we all can survive it."--Shelf Awareness
"This vibrant, moving, and philosophical two-sided essay collection reminds us of all the ways that human beings and the natural world are interconnected. Deborah Bird Rose's piece on the "shimmer of life" alone makes the book worth reading."--Chicago Review of Books
"There's a poetry in facts. And as this book reveals, there is an increasing amount of courage and acceptance to be found in understanding even the most destructive changes in plant and wildlife that the overheated Anthropocene will bring us."--Santa Fe New Mexican
"Well worth reading: a frank, luminous set of dispatches from future worlds and fractured pasts."--Full Stop
--This text refers to the hardcover edition.
About the Author
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Niels Bohr Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, where she codirects Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA).
Heather Swanson is assistant professor of anthropology at Aarhus University.
Elaine Gan is art director of AURA and postdoctoral fellow at Aarhus University.
Nils Bubandt is professor of anthropology at Aarhus University, where he codirects AURA.
--This text refers to the hardcover edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The biology of Mad Max
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The gimmicky split-text format is no accident,for this is a deliberately eclectic and challenging collection of essays, which aims to develop new ways of talking about our current ecological crises. So we have more-or-less straight science describing 'rewilding' and the spawning of Horseshoe Crabs alongside a 'queer' reading of wolf-human story-telling and an essay by Haraway stuffed with characteristically bewildering yet suggestive neologisms. Not surprisingly, some of it works well, some falls flat. The biggest weakness being, perhaps that in such a compressed form, the material that one is already familiar with seems too superficial, whilst the unfamiliar insufficiently developed.
As someone trained in straight biological science, the most rewarding essays for me were those which built on Lynn Margulis' work on the ubiquity of symbiosis and the 'holobiont', whilst those heavy with the language of 'post-everything' academia too often called to mind the tale of the Emperor's new clothes. What is one to make, after all, of a sentence like Harraway's 'We are compost, not post-human; we inhabit the humusities, not the humanities'?
That said, this is a book that is filled with sharp and often poignant, insights. As a way of pointing out connections and suggesting new collaborations, it's a success.
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This book has informed and inspired my work exponentially. Some of the most interesting writers on ecology, kinship and entanglements. Highly recommended for anyone interested in this area. I immediately bought a copy for a friend.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Inspiring Book
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Excellent well informed research and a joy to read. This book looks deep beyond the surface of humanities lived reality showing that we are truly interconnected and entangled in symbiotic relationship with the Earth. What who to the earth we do to ourselves. A wonderfully poetic analysis on many levels of being and becoming for all of creation.
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Trata-se de um projeto transdisciplinar sosbre os impactos do antropoceno contemporãneo, envolvendo campos como sociologia, estudos biológicos e literatura. Destaque também para o projeto gráfico, as ilustrações e fotografias maravilhosas.
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Great book but arrived with grease marks on the cover--which is a bummer, considering how beautiful it is.
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