Reactivating elements : chemistry, ecology, practice / edited by Dimitris Papadopoulos, María Puig de la Bellacasa & Natasha Myers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Papadopoulos, Dimitris, 1967- editor.

Puig de la Bellacasa, María, editor.

Myers, Natasha, 1974- editor.

Series:

Elements (Duke University Press)

Elements

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemical ecology.

Ecology.

Ecocriticism.

Environmental chemistry.

Physical Description:

vi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of elemental thought across fields-chemistry, the biosciences, engineering, physics, science and technology studies, the environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and cultural studies-the contributors examine the relationship between chemistry and ecology, probe the logics that render wind as energy, excavate affective histories of ubiquitous substances such as plastics and radioactive elements, and chart the damage wrought by petrochemical industrialization. Throughout, the volume illuminates how elements become entangled with power and control, coloniality, racism, and extractive productivism while exploring alternative paths to environmental destruction. In so doing, it rethinks the relationship between the elements and the elemental, human and more-than-human worlds, today's damaged ecosystems and other ecologies to come. Contributors. Patrick Bresnihan, Tim Choy, Joseph Dumit, Cori Hayden, Stefan Helmreich, Joseph Masco, Michelle Murphy, Natasha Myers, Dimitris Papadopoulos, María Puig de la Bellacasa, Astrid Schrader, Isabelle Stengers"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Elements : from cosmology to episteme and back / Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, and Natasha Myers

Receiving the gift : earthly events, chemical invariants, and elemental powers / Isabelle Stengers

Chemicals, ecology, and reparative justice / Dimitris Papadopoulos

Elementary forms of elementary forms : old, new, and wavy / Stefan Helmreich

Substance as method : bromine, for example / Joseph Dumit

Elemental ghosts, haunted carbon imaginaries, and living matter at the edge of life / Astrid Schrader

The artificial world / Joseph Masco

Tilting at windmills / Patrick Bresnihan

Crowding the elements / Cori Hayden

Embracing breakdown : soil ecopoethics and the ambivalences of remediation / Maria Puig de la Bellcasa

Externality, breathers, conspiracy : forms for atmospheric reckoning / Tim Choy

Reimagining chemicals, with and against technoscience / Michelle Murphy

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Reactivating elements

ISBN:

9781478013440

1478013443

9781478014362

1478014369

OCLC:

1264735337