Fear of a dead white planet / Joseph Masco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masco, Joseph, 1964-

Choy, Tim, Author.

Kosek, Jake, Author.

Murphy, M., Author.

, University of California, Berkeley, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2025.

Durham Duke University Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Fear of a Dead White Planet asks: How does one study when the planet is on fire? The More Worlds Collective challenges the contemporary rush to planetary technofixes for environmental emergency. Instead, it tracks how such planetary-science frames are enmeshed in the longstanding projects of White Supremacy, settler colonialism, and epistemological violence. Calling for unlearning and joined-up study, the collective reclaims terraforming from off-earth engineering schemes to think through how our more modest efforts to study differently are also world-making and world-breaking. In orienting its work toward terra and formation, the collective commits to a place-based, non universal study scaled at levels both intimate and massive. Through its serious but unruly methods, Fear of a Dead White Planet invites readers to recognize and conjure alternate worlds in and around the university.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PART 0 INVITATION

PART 1 AGAINST THE ONE WORLD, FOR CONDITIONS

PART 2 WHO'S AFRAID OF A DEAD WHITE PLANET?

PART 3 MIDDLES

PART 4 TERRAFORMATICS

PART 5 CONCLUSION AND FUTURE ASSESSMENT

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS / WORK HISTORY

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

9781478094333

OCLC:

1497728738