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Author : C. Baldacci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Venice and the Anthropocene. An Ecocritical Guide written by C. Baldacci and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : AA. VV.
Publisher : Wetlands
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Venice and the Anthropocene written by AA. VV. and published by Wetlands. This book was released on 2023-05-15T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does Venice look like when observed from the perspective of climate change, environmental collapse, and human-animal relations in an age of industrialization and mass extinction? That is, as a privileged observatory of the Anthropocene? This guide, composed of several voices, forms a new, illuminating and disturbing mosaic of Venice and its Lagoon. What does the Venetian School of Painting tell us about our relationship with the environment and animals? What do peripheral places in the Lagoon like Porto Marghera and Pellestrina reveal about the advent and impact of modernity? What stories of extinction lie behind local delicacies like baccalà mantecato? What does the centuries-old relationship of Venetians with water tell us about other cities threatened by an increasingly hostile climate? The guidebook, accompanied by a map, is intended as a tool for learning about the city in a new way. Venice emerges here as a unique ecosystem at risk, but also as a key to understanding our increasingly vulnerable world. Preface by Serenella Iovino
Author : Salvatore Ciriacono
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845450655
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Building on Water written by Salvatore Ciriacono and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamental natural resource, water and its use not only reflect "modes of production" but also that complex interplay between resources and their exploitation (and domination) by various social agents, who in their turn are inevitably influenced by the abundance or rarity of water supplies. Focusing on scientific, social and economic issues from the 16th to the 19th century, the author, one of Italy's leading historians in this field, looks at the innumerable conflicts that arose over water resources and the environmental impact of projects intended to control them. Venice and Holland are undoubtedly the two most fascinating cases of societies "built on water," with the conquest of vast expanses of marshland - either inland or on the coast (the Dutch polders or the Venetian lagoon) – not only stimulating agricultural production, but also nurturing a deeply-felt relationship between the local populations and the element of water itself. The author rounds off his study by looking at the influence the hydraulic technology developed in Holland would have on many European countries (France, England and Germany in particular) and at questions raised by contemporaries about the environmental impact of agricultural progress and its effects upon the social-economic equilibria within the communities concerned.
Author : Pietro Daniel Omodeo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030231208
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Political Epistemology written by Pietro Daniel Omodeo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an investigation of the ideological dimensions of the disciplinary discourses on science in line with the scholarly tradition of historical epistemology. It offers a programmatic treatment of the political-epistemological problematic along three entangled lines of inquiry: socio-historical, epistemological and historiographical. The book aims for a meta-level integration of the existing scholarship on the social and cultural history of science in order to consider the ways in which struggles for hegemony have constantly informed scientific discourses. This problematic is of primary relevance for scholars in Science Studies, philosophers, historians and sociologists of science, but would also be relevant for anybody interested in scientific culture and political theory.
Author : Marianne Krogh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788794102308
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Connectedness: an Incomplete Encyclopedia of Anthropocene (2nd Edition) written by Marianne Krogh and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we live in what geologists have named the Anthropocene. The Earth has entered a new geological epoch, and the climate crisis is a reality. The crisis is so substantial and complex that our existing knowledge of environmental disasters is insufficient. Without the realization that we, as human beings, are intimately connected to all other kinds of life, we are guilty of a collective sin of omission by ignoring the fundamental connectedness of humanity and nature. We are not just part of the same cycle, we are nature. And since everything affects and is affected by everything else, it seems sufficient to consider the Anthropocene from many perspectives and fields.00'Connectedness' includes a diverse selection of contributions, including Björk, Greta Thunberg, Donna Haraway and Tomas Saraceno, that brings many perspectives and disciplines into the discussion to the crucial period in which we are currently living.
Author : Frank Bauer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110714884
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Toward a New Culture of the Material written by Frank Bauer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was wäre, wenn wir das multistabile, ambivalente und anpassungsfähige Verhalten aktiver Materie als offenen Gestaltungsspielraum verstehen? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes erkunden das formbildende Potenzial des Prozessua-len und Unverfügbaren - von mikrobi-ellem Co-Design über morphogeneti-sche Experimente und atmosphärische Kreationen bis hin zu Plastizität und Lebendigkeit in Architektur, Kunst und Begriffsentwicklung. Im Grenzgang zwischen analogen und digitalen For-men überschreiten die hier vorgestell-ten 19 Perspektiven disziplinäre und methodologische Grenzen und zielen darauf ab, ein neues Paradigma des Materiellen zwischen den Kulturen der Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften und des Designs zu begründen. Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zu aktiven Strukturen, adaptiven Materialien und Nachhaltigkeit Analoge Codes und Praktiken im Zeitalter des Digitalen Forschungsergebnisse des Exzellenzclusters "Matters of Activity. Image Space Material" an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Author : Alice Major
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772123978
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Welcome to the Anthropocene written by Alice Major and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major’s most persistent question—“Where do we fit in the universe?”—is made more urgent by the ecological calamity of human-driven climate change. Her poetry leads us to question human hierarchies, loyalties, and consciousness, and challenges us to find some humility in our overblown sense of our cosmic significance. Now, welcome to the Anthropocene you battered, tilting globe. Still you gleam, a blue pearl on the necklace of the planets. This home. Clouds, oceans, life forms span it from pole to pole, within a peel of air as thin as lace lapped round an apple. Fair and fragile bounded sphere, yet strangely tough— this world that life could never love enough. And yet its loving-care has been entrusted to a feckless species, more invested in the partial, while the total goes unnoticed. — from “Welcome to the Anthropocene”
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004441468
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Entanglements and Weavings: Diffractive Approaches to Gender and Love written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this edited volume, authors from multiple academic and creative disciplines interrogate constructionist and new materialist paradigms to assess their adequacy when analysing entanglements and weavings of gender and love in diverse contexts where discursive and material elements intra-act.
Author : McKenzie Wark
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781688281
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Molecular Red written by McKenzie Wark and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Molecular Red, McKenzie Wark creates philosophical tools for the Anthropocene, our new planetary epoch, in which human and natural forces are so entwined that the future of one determines that of the other. Wark explores the implications of Anthropocene through the story of two empires, the Soviet and then the American. The fall of the former prefigures that of the latter. From the ruins of these mighty histories, Wark salvages ideas to help us picture what kind of worlds collective labor might yet build. From the scientific pioneers who were trying to transform science during the Russia Revolution, to visionaries contemplating cyborg possibilities and science fiction dreams in late 20th century California, Molecular Red not only looks at the crisis of climate change that we face but also how we might be able to understand it, and how we might salvage some hope out of the wreckage.
Author : Julie Reiss
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 162273436X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene written by Julie Reiss and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene contributes to the growing literature on artistic responses to global climate change and its consequences. Designed to include multiple perspectives, it contains essays by thirteen art historians, art critics, curators, artists and educators, and offers different frameworks for talking about visual representation and the current environmental crisis. The anthology models a range of methodological approaches drawn from different disciplines, and contributes to an understanding of how artists and those writing about art construct narratives around the environment. The book is illustrated with examples of art by nearly thirty different contemporary artists.
Author : Marek Oziewicz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350203351
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene written by Marek Oziewicz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to look at the intersection of the discourse of the Anthropocene within the two highly influential storytelling modes of fantasy and myth, this book shows the need for stories that articulate visions of a biocentric, ecological civilization. Fantasy and myth have long been humanity's most advanced technologies for collective dreaming. Today they are helping us adopt a biocentric lens, re-kin us with other forms of life, and assist us in the transition to an ecological civilization. Deliberately moving away from dystopian narratives toward anticipatory imaginations of sustainable futures, this volume blends chapters by top scholars in the fields of fantasy, myth, and Young Adult literature with personal reflections by award-winning authors and illustrators of books for young audiences, including Shaun Tan, Jane Yolen, Katherine Applegate and Joseph Bruchac. Chapters cover the works of major fantasy authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, Terry Prachett, J. K. Rowling, China Miéville, Barbara Henderson, Jeanette Winterson, John Crowley, Richard Powers, George R. R. Martin and Kim Stanley Robinson. They range through narratives set in the UK, USA, Nigeria, Ghana, Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia. Across the chapters, fantasy and myth are framed as spaces where visions of sustainable futures can be designed with most detail and nuance. Rather than merely criticizing the ecocidal status quo, the book asks how mythic narratives and fantastic stories can mobilize resistance around ideas necessary for the emergence of an ecological civilization.
Author : Andrew S. Goudie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107139961
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Geomorphology in the Anthropocene written by Andrew S. Goudie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive treatment of the human role in modifying geomorphological forms and processes and their influence on the Earth's systems.
Author : Edward S. Dove
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108905161
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Law and Legacy in Medical Jurisprudence written by Edward S. Dove and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graeme Laurie stepped down from the Chair in Medical Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh in 2019. This edited collection pays tribute to his extraordinary contributions to the field. Graeme often spoke about the importance of 'legacy' in academic work and forged a remarkable intellectual legacy of his own, notably through his work on genetic privacy, human tissue and information governance, and the regulatory salience of the concept of liminality. The essays in this volume animate the concept of legacy to analyse the study and practice of medical jurisprudence. In this light, legacy reveals characteristics of both benefit and burden, as both an encumbrance to and facilitator of the development of law, policy and regulation. The contributions reconcile the ideas of legacy and responsiveness and show that both dimensions are critical to achieve and sustain the health of medical jurisprudence itself as a dynamic, interdisciplinary and policy-engaged field of thinking.
Author : Markus Fraundorfer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030881563
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Global Governance in the Age of the Anthropocene written by Markus Fraundorfer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Global Governance and the Anthropocene: An Entangled History -- Chapter 3: Conceptual Toolbox -- Chapter 4: Global Governance of Infectious Disease Outbreaks -- Chapter 5: Global Food Production -- Chapter 6: Transboundary Water Governance? -- Chapter 7: Global Energy Governance -- Chapter 8: Global Environmental Governance -- Chapter 9: Conclusion. .
Author : Matthew C. Ally
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793638691
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Earthly Engagements written by Matthew C. Ally and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene brings together scholars from the Sartre studies community to think through the planetary ecological crisis. Edited by Matthew C. Ally and Damon Boria, the collection explores ways in which Sartre’s existential thought can be read socio-ecologically, illuminating the tightly imbricated earthly and worldly crises of our post-Holocene epoch. Contributors variously discuss phenomenology, ethics, politics, ontology, and metaphysics. Earthly locations include the Icelandic coast, the Minnesota woods, the Indiana Dunes, the Chinese Great Plain, the Venetian Lagoon, and more; worldly situations include that of the artist, the activist, the consumer, the tourist, and more. Through their diversity of methods and substantive concerns, the chapters reveal a wealth of critical and heuristic resources within Sartre’s thought for thinking through and engaging the planetary ecological crisis and its direct ties to global social, economic, and political crises. In full recognition of Sartre’s personal distaste for agrarian settings and wilderness, and some ostensibly anti-environmental philosophical and literary moments, the contributors take the proper Sartrean line that how we view nature and our relationship to nature is neither closed nor predetermined. Like life itself, our worldly relationship to earthly nature is rooted in the sufficiency and open-endedness of freedom.
Author : Laura Pashby
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1398527009
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Chasing Fog written by Laura Pashby and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-08-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first, I didn’t find fog – fog found me. Liminal, transformative and increasingly elusive – far from a simple cloud of water droplets, fog is a state of mind. As mist drifted through a copse of trees, turning a familiar place strange and otherworldly, Laura Pashby snapped a photograph and an obsession began. Pashby hunts for fog, walks and swims in it, explores its often pivotal role in literature, mythology and history, as well as its environmental significance. There has been a 50 per cent drop in 'fog events' in the past fifty years, fog is drifting away without us noticing and the ecological impact could be calamitous. As she journeys to the foggiest places she can find, Pashby immerses herself in Dartmoor’s dangerous fog, searches for the Scottish haar, experiences Venice’s magical mist, tell us the myths behind the River Severn’s fog and the shipwrecks it hides. It’s easy to get lost in fog, but sometimes it’s where imperceptible things can be found, including in ourselves. Chasing Fog is a captivating meditation on fog and mist, a love song to weather and nature’s power to transform.
Author : Gabriele Dürbeck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000432505
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene written by Gabriele Dürbeck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthropocene concept draws attention to the various forms of entanglement of social, political, ecological, biological and geological processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The ensuing complexity and ambiguity create manifold challenges to widely established theories, methodologies, epistemologies and ontologies. The contributions to this volume engage with conceptual issues of scale in the Anthropocene with a focus on mediated representation and narrative. They are centered around the themes of scale and time, scale and the nonhuman and scale and space. The volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history and literary, cultural and media studies. Together, they contribute to current debates on the (re-)imagining of forms of human responsibility that meet the challenges created by humanity entering an age of scalar complexity.
