Against the anthropocene : visual culture and environment today / T.J. Demos.

By:

Demos, T. J [author]

Material type: Text

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9783956792106
3956792106

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Against the anthropoceneLOC classification:

GF75 .D4667 2017

Contents:

(from table of contents) Welcome to the Anthropocene! -- Geoengineering the Anthropocene -- Against the Anthropocene -- Capitalocene violence -- Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene, the many names of resistance

Summary: Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the new proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, this book critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations. It analyzes contemporary visual culture-popular science websites, remote sensing and SatNav imagery, eco-activist mobilizations, and experimental artistic projects--to consider how the term proposes more than merely a description of objective geological periodization. This book argues that the Anthropocene terminology works ideologically in support of a neoliberal financialization of nature, anthropocentric political economy, and endorsement of geoengineering as the preferred--but likely disastrous--method of approaching climate change. To democratize decisions about the world's near future, we urgently need to subject the Anthropocene thesis to critical scrutiny and develop creative alternatives in the present

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Book	Merkez Kütüphane Genel Koleksiyon / Main Collection	Merkez Kütüphane	Genel Koleksiyon	GF75 .D4667 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	EÜT		0069037

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the new proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, this book critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations. It analyzes contemporary visual culture-popular science websites, remote sensing and SatNav imagery, eco-activist mobilizations, and experimental artistic projects--to consider how the term proposes more than merely a description of objective geological periodization. This book argues that the Anthropocene terminology works ideologically in support of a neoliberal financialization of nature, anthropocentric political economy, and endorsement of geoengineering as the preferred--but likely disastrous--method of approaching climate change. To democratize decisions about the world's near future, we urgently need to subject the Anthropocene thesis to critical scrutiny and develop creative alternatives in the present

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