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Terracene : a crude aesthetics / Salar Mameni.
Van Pelt Library NX180.S6 M345 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mameni, Salar, 1977- author.
- Series:
- ANIMA (Duke University Press)
- ANIMA: critical race studies otherwise
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts and society--Middle East.
- Arts and society.
- Arts, Modern--21st century--Political aspects.
- Arts, Modern.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in mass media.
- Environmental degradation in art.
- Human ecology in art.
- Terrorism--Environmental aspects.
- Terrorism.
- War--Environmental aspects.
- War.
- Climatic changes--Social aspects.
- Climatic changes.
- Arts, Modern--Political aspects.
- War on Terrorism (2001-2009) in mass media.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- 230 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "In Terracene, Salar Mameni shows how the racialized construction of terror in the Western political imagination and critical discourse concerning the threat of anthropogenic climate change have developed in conjunction with one another. Through the logic of the Anthropocene, ecological catastrophe has become enclosed within state discourse on terror, and natural disasters, viruses, pollution and other 'non-human' dangers have been conflated with the threat of political violence by the 'less-than-human' racialized other. Terracene challenges this false equivalence by examining how West Asian artists and knowledge producers confront the 'weaponized ecologies' of their homelands and discover ways of living with what Mameni calls terrans-'the mountains, wetlands, viruses, smoke plumes, mutated cells and crude oil" that make up our world'-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Terror and the Anthropocene
- Anti-colonial critique of the Anthropocene
- Provincializing the Anthropocene; or, why artists, feminists, and Yemeni people have much to say about the cosmos
- The Anthropocene is a work of art
- The Terracene
- Sensing the Terracene
- Crude aesthetics
- The glass shattered at my feet
- Listening to the Terracene
- Shelter
- Silence
- Lamassu
- Huma
- Homa
- Pazuzu
- The Red Star
- Narrative terrorism
- Texas crude
- A fire!
- The Devil's excrement.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-222) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Mameni, Salar, 1977- Terracene.
- ISBN:
- 9781478025061
- 1478025069
- 9781478020066
- 1478020067
- OCLC:
- 1356022260
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