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  • Elisabeth Ellsworth (editor)
  • Jamie Kruse (editor)

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TitleBackmatter
ContributorElisabeth Ellsworth (editor)
Jamie Kruse (editor)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0014.1.42
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/making-the-geologic-now/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightEllsworth, Elisabeth; Kruse, Jamie
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2012-12-04
Long abstractEllsworth and Kruse have curated a powerful collection of words and images, “speculative or aesthetic devices” designed to instigate a new economy of discernment. It incites by showcasing a host of geologic actants—rivers, shale, escarpments, volcanos, tectonic plates, glaciers, river deltas, riprap, mud, clay—at work around and within human bodies, machines, cities, identi-ties, architectures. Such “activations of geologic materiality”1 help to recompose the default perceptual regime, which had tended to overlook the geologic (except on special occasions) and to forget how thoroughly we ourselves are geo-creatures—Earthlings. We are Earthlings both in the sense that we need a host of other bodies (“the planet”) to live and in the sense that “we” are made of the same elements as is the planet. We are “walking, talking minerals,” redistributions of “oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, sulfur, phospho-rous, and other elements of Earth’s crust into two-legged, upright forms.”2 Like wind or river, human individuals and groups are geologic forces that can alter the planet in countless and, as the concept of the Anthropocene marks, game-changing ways.
Page rangepp. 243–258
Print length16 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Elisabeth Ellsworth

(editor)

Jamie Kruse

(editor)