Mastery of non-mastery in the age of meltdown / Michael Taussig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taussig, Michael T., author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Philosophy.

Human ecology.

Nature and civilization.

Civilization, Modern--21st century.

Civilization, Modern.

Human ecology in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.) : 5 halftones

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

For centuries, humans have excelled at mimicking nature in order to exploit it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, Michael Taussig asks what function a newly invigorated mimetic faculty might exert along with such change. This book is not solely a reflection on our condition but also a theoretical effort to reckon with the impulses that have fed our relentless ambition for dominance over nature.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Smoke and Mirrors

1. Mimetic Excess

2. The Exposition of the Non -Dogmatic Cannot Be Dogmatic

3. Nietzsche ’s Tuning Fork, Kafka’s Sirens

4. Twilight of the Idols

5. Catastrophe: The Solar Inversion of Satanic Denial

6. Metamorphic Sublimity

7. Re -Enchantment of Nature

8. In Your Bones You Know Otherwise

9. Planetarium

10. Sunset

11. In the Beginning Was the Firefly

12. The Sun Is an Indian Shaman

13. Lightning

14. Is Magic Domination of Nature?

15. The Alpha and Omega of All Mastery

16. Art versus Art

17. Subterranean Cities of Sleep

18. Magic Hour

19. Julio Reyes ’s Phantom Ship

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 3, 2020).

ISBN:

9780226698700

022669870X

OCLC:

1158219365