Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility Volume 53 Contributor(s): Fuller, Matthew (Author), Goriunova, Olga (Author) |
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ISBN: 1517905532 ISBN-13: 9781517905538 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $25.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects |
Dewey: 111.85 |
LCCN: 2018061114 |
Series: PostHumanities |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (0.70 lbs) 232 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today's ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life 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. Crosscutting chapters on devastation, anguish, irresolvability, luck, plant, and home create a vivid and multifaceted approach that is as remarkable for its humor as for its scholarly complexity. Engaging with Deleuze, Guattari, and Bakhtin, among others, Bleak Joys captures the modes of crises that constitute our present ecological and political condition, and reckons with the means by which they are not simply aesthetically known but aesthetically manifest. |