Matthew Fuller, Olga Goriunova - Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility
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Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility

Matthew Fuller, Olga Goriunova

ISBN: 9781517905538
Vydavatelství: University of Minnesota Press
Rok vydání: 2019
Vazba: Paperback
Počet stran: 232
Dostupnost: Na objednávku

Původní cena: 742 Kč
Výstavní cena: 668 Kč(t.j. po slevě 10%)
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Katalogová cena: 20.99 GBP

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A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today’s ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life Bleak Joys develops an understanding of complex entities and processes—from plant roots to forests to ecological damage and its calculation—as aesthetic. It is also a book about “bad” things, such as anguish and devastation, which relate to the ecological and technical but are also constitutive of politics, the ethical, and the formation of subjects. 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.

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