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Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times: A Critical Atlas of the Anthropocene

  • Réka Patrícia Gál (editor)
  • Petra Löffler (editor)
  • Jakob Claus (author)
  • Jörg Dünne (author)
  • Marie Heinrichs (author)
  • Hannah Schmedes (author)
  • Tomás J. Usón (author)
Metadata
TitleEarth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times
SubtitleA Critical Atlas of the Anthropocene
ContributorRéka Patrícia Gál (editor)
Petra Löffler (editor)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.14619/1891
Landing pagehttps://meson.press/books/earth-and-beyond-in-tumultuous-times/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
CopyrightRéka Patrícia Gál; Petra Löffler
Publishermeson press
Publication placeLüneburg
Published on2021-03-15
Series
  • Future Ecologies vol. 1
  • ISSN Print: 0000-0000
  • ISSN Digital: 0000-0001
ISBN978-3-95796-189-1 (Paperback)
978-3-95796-190-7 (PDF)
Short abstractEarth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times offers a critical exploration of the Anthropocene concept. It addresses the urgent geopolitical and environmental questions raised by the new geological epoch. How are we to rethink landscapes, such as river deltas, oceans, or outer space? How can we create spaces for resistance and utopic dreaming? This volume confronts these questions by charting how space and place are constructed, deconstructed, and negotiated by humans and non-humans under conditions of globally entangled consumption, movement, and contamination. The essays in this volume are complemented by artistic interventions that offer a poetics for a harmed planet and the numerous worlds it contains. Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times is part of the series Future Ecologies dedicated to rethink the multiple ecologies that flourish and struggle on Earth and beyond.
Long abstractEarth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times offers a critical exploration of the Anthropocene concept. It addresses the urgent geopolitical and environmental questions raised by the new geological epoch. How are we to rethink landscapes, such as river deltas, oceans, or outer space? How can we create spaces for resistance and utopic dreaming? This volume confronts these questions by charting how space and place are constructed, deconstructed, and negotiated by humans and non-humans under conditions of globally entangled consumption, movement, and contamination. The essays in this volume are complemented by artistic interventions that offer a poetics for a harmed planet and the numerous worlds it contains. Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times is part of the series Future Ecologies dedicated to rethink the multiple ecologies that flourish and struggle on Earth and beyond.
Print length218 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Dimensions127 x 178 mm | 5" x 7.01" (Paperback)
THEMA
  • JPSL
  • JBCT1
  • RNA
  • PSAF
BIC
  • JPSL
  • JFD
  • RNA
  • PSAF
BISAC
  • POL062000
  • SOC052000
  • SCI020000
LCC
  • P87-96
  • GE195-199
  • GF1-900
Keywords
  • Ecology
Contributors

Réka Patrícia Gál

(editor)
PhD Candidate at University of Toronto

Réka Patrícia Gál is a PhD student at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto and a Fellow at the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology. Her main research interests are in feminist media theory, science and technology studies, environmental humanities, and anthropology of outer space.

Petra Löffler

(editor)
Professor of Theory and History of Contemporary Media at University of Oldenburg

Petra Löffler is Professor of Theory and History of Contemporary Media at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Her particular research interests include media archeology, media ecologies, archival practices, and material culture.

Jakob Claus

(author)
Research Associate at University of Oldenburg

Jakob Claus is a research associate at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. His research interests focus on technology and media theory, the formation of knowledge regimes, and colonial modes of epistemological exclusion.

Jörg Dünne

(author)
Professor of Romance Literatures at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Jörg Dünne is Professor of Romance Literatures at Humboldt University of Berlin. His fields of study are literatures in Spanish and French since early modernity, and his particular research interests include literature and cartography, catastrophism, and imaginations of deep time.

Marie Heinrichs

(author)

Marie Heinrichs studies European Media Studies at the University of Potsdam. Her main areas of research interest include materialism(s), embodiment, physicality, feminist standpoint theory, critical theory of technology, and protest movements.

Hannah Schmedes

(author)

Hannah Schmedes studies European Media Studies at the University of Potsdam and works at the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image, Space, Material« of Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research focusses on the correlation of biological and technical narratives about extraterrestrial colonialism and symbiosis.

Tomás J. Usón

(author)

Tomás J. Usón is a PhD student at the Institute for European Ethnology and IRI THESys at Humboldt University of Berlin. His main research interests are in risk and disaster studies, science and technology studies, urban anthropology and anthropological theory of time, memory and anticipation.