Timescales : thinking across ecological temporalities / Bethany Wiggin, Carolyn Fornoff , and Patricia Eunji Kim, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wiggin, Bethany, 1972- editor.

Fornoff, Carolyn, editor.

Kim, Patricia Eunji, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology and the humanities.

Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 205 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Humanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis In 2016, Antarctica's Totten Glacier, formed some 34 million years ago, detached from its bedrock, melted from the bottom by warming ocean waters. For the editors of Timescales, this event captures the disjunctive temporalities of our era's--the Anthropocene's--ecological crises: the rapid and accelerating degradation of our planet's life-supporting environment established slowly over millennia. They contend that, to represent and respond to these crises (i.e., climate change, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, species extinction, and biodiversity loss) requires reframing time itself, making more visible the relationship between past, present, and future, and between a human life span and the planet's. Timescales ' collection of lively and thought-provoking essays puts oceanographers, geophysicists, geologists, and anthropologists into conversation with literary scholars, art historians, and archaeologists. Together forging new intellectual spaces, they explore the relationship between geological deep time and historical particularity, between ecological crises and cultural expression, between environmental policy and social constructions, between restoration ecology and future imaginaries, and between constructive pessimism and radical (and actionable) hope. Interspersed among these essays are three complementary "etudes," in which artists describe experimental works that explore the various timescales of ecological crisis. Contributors: Jason Bell, Harvard Law School; Iemanjá Brown, College of Wooster; Beatriz Cortez, California State U, Northridge; Wai Chee Dimock, Yale U; Jane E. Dmochowski, U of Pennsylvania; David A. D. Evans, Yale U; Kate Farquhar; Marcia Ferguson, U of Pennsylvania; Ömür Harman?ah, U of Illinois at Chicago; Troy Herion; Mimi Lien; Mary Mattingly; Paul Mitchell, U of Pennsylvania; Frank Pavia, California Institute of Technology; Dan Rothenberg; Jennifer E. Telesca, Pratt Institute; Charles M. Tung, Seattle U.

Contents:

Part I Variations And Methods

1 Time Bomb: Pessimistic Approaches to Climate Change Studies p. 3 / Jason Bell and Frank Pavia

2 Earth's Changing Climate: A Deep-Time Geoscience Perspective p. 27 / Jane E. Dmochowski and David A. D. Evans

3 Deep Time and Landscape History: How Can Historical Particularity Be Translated? p. 39 / Ömür Harmansah

Etude 1 A Period of Animate Existence

4 Staging Climate: A Period of Animate Existence and the Global Imaginary p. 55 / Marcia Ferguson

5 A Period of Animate Existence p. 63 / Troy Herion and Mimi Lien and Dan Rothenberg

6 Conversations with Dan Rothenberg, Director of A Period of Animate Existence p. 71 / Bethany Wiggin

Part II Variations, Fast And Slow

7 Time Machines and Timelapse Aesthetics in Anthropocenic Modernism p. 79 / Charles M. Tung

8 Fishing for the Anthropocene: Time in Ocean Governance p. 95 / Jennifer E. Telesca

Etude 2 WetLand

9 WetLand Manifesto p. 111 / Mary Mattingly

10 Figuring WetLand p. 115 / Kate Farquhar

Part III Repetitions And Variations

11 Vanishing Sounds; Thoreau and the Sixth Extinction p. 131 / Wai Chee Dimock

12 Hoopwalking: Human Rewilding and Anthropocene Chronotopes p. 151 / Paul Mitchell

13 Dirt Eating in the Disaster p. 169 / Iemanjá Brown

Etude 3 Futurity Unknown

14 The Memory of Plants: Genetics, Migration, and the Construction of the Future p. 183 / Beatriz Cortez.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781452963679

1452963673

Publisher Number:

99986632709

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