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

By: Demos, T. J [author].

Material type: materialTypeLabel

BookPublisher: Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 129 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 20 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783956792106 (paperback); 3956792106 (paperback).Subject(s): Environmentalism

| Visual communication

| Geology, Stratigraphic -- Anthropocene -- Social aspects

| Political ecology

| Environmentalism in art

| Nature -- Effect of human beings on

| Climatic changes -- Economic aspects

| Global environmental change -- Economic aspects

DDC classification: 363.7

Contents:

1. Welcome to the Anthropocene! -- 2. Geoengineering the Anthropocene -- 3. Against the Anthropocene -- 4. Capitalocene violence -- 5. 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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	363.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	15/01/2024	00232081
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	363.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	12/04/2024	00232062

Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A critique of the discourse on the Anthropocene and the creative alternatives to it to be found through the arts, sciences, and humanities.

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.

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.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

T. J. Demos, an award-winning writer, is Professor of Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes widely about contemporary art, global politics, and ecology, and is the author, most recently, of Against the Anthropocene- Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press).