Tools for extinction / edited and compiled by Denise Rose Hansen ; by Naja Marie Aidt [and 17 others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hansen, Denise Rose, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects--Literary collections.

COVID-19 (Disease).

COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects.

Genre:

Essays.

Literary collections.

Poetry.

Literature.

Physical Description:

117 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Lolli, [2020]

Summary:

"Eighteen international writers respond to the open-ended period of social distancing, closures, and illness caused by Covid-19. Compiled during the initial lockdown in Europe, this special collection is a meteoric publishing project with contributions from some of the most exciting and innovative authors working today. Meditating on notions of distance and closeness, sameness and alterity, extinguishing and kindling, Tools for Extinction considers how a common pause might give rise to new modes of domesticity and shift experiences of time. What gestures and actions are we willing to perform to make ourselves, and each other, feel at ease - or at work? What tools and objects are useful, or unprecedentedly useless, to us in the process? And as our species' trademark proclivity for projecting ourselves into the future is disrupted, might we come to see the buildings, animals, plants, and foodstuffs around us in a new light? The anthology takes its name from Steven Brand's Whole Earth Catalog, a 1960s counterculture compendium of product reviews, essays, and articles on the themes of self-sufficiency, ecology, and alternative education. By giving "access to tools", a new social order and a more sustainable Earth was imagined." --Publisher's description.

Notes:

"Eighteen international writers respond to the open-ended period of social distancing, closures, and illness caused by Covid-19"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Aidt, Naja Marie, 1963- Spring report from Denmark.

ISBN:

9781999992828

1999992822

OCLC:

1199586477

Publisher Number:

99988402718