Petrified : Living During a Rupture of Life on Earth / Joshua Wodak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wodak, Joshua, Author.

Contributor:

Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies, Funder.

Series:

Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies

Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies , 2752-1370 ; 3

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XX, 354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mnchen ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A rupture of life on Earth is currently unfolding. What, then, does this rupture signify, not only in terms of being alive during such an upheaval, but also in terms of being alive to upheaval itself? Petrified: Living During a Rupture of Life on Earth takes the reader on a journey deep into the nature of our home, to give us the tools to learn how, in the middle of that rupture, to comport ourselves with honesty, clarity, culpability and intelligence. The purpose of this journey is straightforward: to formulate the basis of a philosophy for living during this rupture of life on earth. A philosophy for living in the twenty-first-and-last century of life as we have known it on our planet. A toolkit, as it were, for living at the confluence between being petrified at the prospect of extinction, and becoming petrified in the most real and physical sense. Lyrical, playful, and deadly serious, Petrified aims to provide a new worldview for a new world coming, creating a present-day fable about achieving fidelity to the vicissitudes of the cosmos. Wherein, the book asks: if desperate times call for desperate measures, how can the response be measured against its only true correlate – the cosmos?

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

EPIGRAPH

The Die Is Cast: A dramatis personae

Contents

List of Illustrations

PRELUDE

Backstory to the Future

Introduction

ACT I: THE DOUR

I Here.Goes.Nothing.

II Shift.Happen.Stance.

III Blunt.Force.Trauma.

ACT II: THE DIRE

IV And Now for Something Completely Indifferent . . .

V A Brief History of Running Out of Time

VI What is Life (at the End of Empire)?

ACT III: THE DICE

VII It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Island

VIII Laughing All the Way to the Cryobank

IX How to Fall in Lava with Volcanoes

POSTSCRIPT (posthumous)

Nothing.Last.Forever.

Glossary

Author bio

Bibliography

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

3-11-138293-1

OCLC:

1504150554