Screen LibraryBleak joys : aesthetics of ecology and impossibility /
"Bleak Joys develops an understanding of complex entities and processes--from plant roots to forests to ecological damage and its calculation--as aesthetic. It is also a book about "bad" things, such as anguish and devastation, which relate to the ecological and technical but are also...
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University of Minnesota Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Minneapolis : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Posthumanities ;
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| Summary: |
"Bleak Joys develops an understanding of complex entities and processes--from plant roots to forests to ecological damage and its calculation--as aesthetic. It is also a book about "bad" things, such as anguish and devastation, which relate to the ecological and technical but are also constitutive of politics, the ethical, and the formation of subjects. Avidly interdisciplinary, Bleak Joys draws on scientific work in plant sciences, computing, and cybernetics, as well as mathematics, literature, and art in ways that are not merely illustrative of but foundational to our understanding of ecological aesthetics and the condition in which the posthumanities are being forged. It places the sensory world of plants next to the generalized and nonlinear infrastructure of irresolvability--the economics of indifference up against the question of how to make a home on Planet Earth in a condition of damaged ecologies."-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxviii, 192 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781517905538 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 1517905532 (paperback : alkaline paper) 9781517905521 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 1517905524 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | BH301 |
| CLC: | B83-066 |
| Call Number: | B83-066/F967 |
| Contents: | Devastation -- Anguish -- Irresolvability -- Luck -- Plant -- Home. |