Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Unconstructable EarthCondition: NewSubtitle: An Ecology of SeparationISBN-10: 0823282589EAN: 9780823282586ISBN: 9780823282586Publisher: Fordham University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/16/2018Description: Winner, Grand Prize, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and TranslationThe Space Age is over? Not at all! A new planet has appeared: Earth. In the age of the Anthropocene, the Earth is a post-natural planet that can be remade at will, controlled and managed thanks to the prowess of geoengineering. This new imaginary is also accompanied by a new kind of power—geopower—that takes the entire Earth, in its social, biological and geophysical dimensions, as an object of knowledge, intervention, and governmentality. In short, our rising awareness that we have destroyed our planet has simultaneously provided us not with remorse or resolve but with a new fantasy: that the Anthropocene delivers an opportunity to remake our terrestrial environment thanks to the power of technology.Such is the position we find ourselves in, when proposals for reengineering the earth’s ecosystems and geosystems are taken as the only politically feasible answer to ecological catastrophe. Yet far from being merely the fruit of geo-capitalism, this new grand narrative of geopower has also been activated by theorists of the constructivist turn—ecomodernist, postenvironmentalist, accelerationist—who have likewise called into question the great divide between nature and culture. With the collapse of this divide, a cyborg, hybrid, flexible nature has been built, an impoverished nature that does not exist without being performed by technologies that proliferate within the space of human needs and capitalist imperatives. Underneath this performative vision resides a hidden anaturalism denying all otherness to nature and the Earth, no longer by externalizing it as a thing to be dominated, but by radically internalizing it as something to be digested. Constructivist ecology thus finds itself in no position to confront the geoconstructivist project, with its claim that there is no nature and its aim to replace Earth with Earth 2.0.Against both positions, Neyrat stakes out the importance of the unconstructable Earth. Against the fusional myth of technology over nature, but without returning to the division between nature and culture, he proposes an “ecology of separation” that acknowledges the wild, subtractive capacity of nature. Against the capitalist, technocratic delusion of earth as a constructible object, but equally against an organicism marked by unacknowledged traces of racism and sexism, Neyrat shows what it means to appreciate Earth as an unsubstitutable becoming: a traject that cannot be replicated in a laboratory. Underway for billions of years, withdrawing into the most distant past and the most inaccessible future, Earth escapes the hubris of all who would remake and master it.This remarkable book, which will be of interest to those across the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, from theorists to shapers of policy, recasts the earth as a singular trajectory that invites humans to turn political ecology into a geopolitics.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Frédéric NeyratTranslator: Drew S. BurkContributor: Drew S. Burk (Translated by)Genre: Science Nature & MathBook Series: Meaning SystemsTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Unconstructable Earth
Title: The Unconstructable Earth
Subtitle: An Ecology of Separation
ISBN-10: 0823282589
EAN: 9780823282586
ISBN: 9780823282586
Release Date: 10/16/2018
Release Year: 2018
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Drew S. Burk
Contributor: Drew S. Burk (Translated by)
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Unconstructable Earth : an Ecology of Separation
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Subject: Philosophy & Social Aspects, Movements / Post-Structuralism, Environmental / General, Ecology, History & Surveys / Modern, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2018
Item Weight: 17.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Nature, Philosophy, Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Science
Author: Édéric Neyrat
Item Length: 9.3 in
Series: Meaning Systems Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
