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Future remains : a cabinet of curiosities for the Anthropocene / edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, and Robert S. Emmett.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Nature and civilization.
- Human ecology.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "This dynamic entry in the burgeoning field of environmental humanities is built around fifteen objects that represent the scope and peril of the Anthropocene--among them a monkey wrench, a jar of beach sand, a Blackberry, a mirror, and a cryogenic freezer box. The objects are framed by six more expansive essays reflecting on the meanings of the Anthropocene for scholarship and the world ..."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Anthropocene: the promise and pitfalls of an epochal idea / Rob Nixon
- Hubris. Anthropocene in a jar / Tomas Matza, Nicole Heller
- Concretes speak / Rachel Harkness, CristiaÌn Simonetti, Judith Winter
- The age of (a) man / Joseph Masco
- The manual pesticide spray pump / Michelle Mart, Cameron Muir
- Hubris or humility: genealogies of the Anthropocene / Gregg Mitman
- Living and dying. Huia echoes / Julianne Lutz Warren
- Snarge / Gary Kroll
- Marine animal satellite tags / Nils Hanwahr
- Artificial coral reef / Josh Wodak
- Freezing life in the Anthropocene / Elizabeth Hennessy
- Racism and the Anthropocene / Laura Pulido
- Sabotaging the Anthropocene; or, in the praise of mutiny / Marco Armiero
- Laboring. On possibility; or, the monkey wrench / Daegan Miller
- The German calico quilt / Bethany Wiggin
- Anthropocene aesthetics / Robert S. Emmett
- Making. The mirror: testing the counter-Anthropocene / Sverker SoÌrlin
- Objects from Anna Schwartz's cabinet of curiosities / Judit Hersko
- Technofossil / Jared Farmer
- Davies Creek Road / Anthropocene cabinets of curiosity: objects of strange change / Libby Robin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780226508658
- 022650865X
- 9780226508795
- 022650879X
- OCLC:
- 975858831
- Publisher Number:
- 99977933127
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