Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today

A critique of the discourse on the Anthropocene and the creative alternatives to it to be found...
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Author: T. J. Demos
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Language: English
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Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today by Demos, T. J.

Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today

Dhs. 163.94

Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today

Dhs. 163.94
Author: T. J. Demos
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.



Author: T. J. Demos
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Published: 10/31/2017
Pages: 132
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.60w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9783956792106

About the Author
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).

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