Exposed : environmental politics and pleasures in posthuman times / Stacy Alaimo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alaimo, Stacy, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Philosophy.

Human ecology.

Human beings--Effect of environment on.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London, [England] : University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Opening with the statement "The anthropocene is no time to set things straight," Stacy Alaimo puts forth potent arguments for a material feminist posthumanism in the chapters that follow. From trans-species art and queer animals to naked protesting and scientific accounts of fishy humans, Exposed argues for feminist posthumanism immersed in strange agencies and scale-shifting ethics. Including such divergent topics as landscape art, ocean ecologies, and plastic activism, Alaimo explores our environmental predicaments to better understand feminist occupations of transcorporeal subjectivity. She puts scientists, activists, artists, writers, and theorists in conversation, revealing that the state of the planet in the twenty-first century has radically transformed ethics, politics, and what it means to be human. Ultimately, Exposed calls for an environmental stance in which, rather than operating from an externalized perspective, we think, feel, and act as the very stuff of the world."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

pt. I POSTHUMAN PLEASURES

1. This Is about Pleasure: An Ethics of Inhabiting

2. Eluding Capture: The Science, Culture, and Pleasure of "Queer" Animals

pt. II INSURGENT EXPOSURE

3. The Naked Word: Spelling, Stripping, Lusting as Environmental Protest

4. Climate Systems, Carbon-Heavy Masculinity, and Feminist Exposure

pt. III STRANGE AGENCIES IN ANTHROPOCENE SEAS

5. Oceanic Origins, Plastic Activism, and New Materialism at Sea

6. Your Shell on Acid: Material Immersion, Anthropocene Dissolves.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781452952192

1-4529-5219-1