The Unconstructable Earth: An Ecology of Separation by Fr?d?ric Neyrat (English)

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Unconstructable Earth by Frédéric Neyrat, Drew S. Burk This book contributes to the environmental humanities field by offering an analysis of the Anthropocene fantasy: the idea that the Anthropocene is an opportunity to remake our terrestrial environment thanks to the power of technology. The author argues that the earth always escapes the human desire to remake and master it. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 earths 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. Back Cover "A vitally important book that stakes out a new position in the environmental humanities. This is not a book of policy recommendations, but rather of basic foundational concerns that any actually policy will have to address and to be answerable to."--Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University "This is a book of great interest that addresses a topic of considerable concern among environmentalists in North America and Western Europe today--how to find a third way between eco-modernism and an organic and holistic nature."--Ursula Heise, UCLA "An unflinching critique of geoengineering, this book offers hope in a sliver of uncolonized, unmapped, unconstructed space and time, amid the super-storms of ideology, the teleology of historicism, and the bad faith of political actors with vested interests. Planet earth is not an object or a subject, but a trajectory in time and space toward anti-production, entropy, perhaps extinction--cause for a new political ecology in the time of 400+ ppm of C02."--Karen Pinkus, Cornell University The Anthropocene has both described and rendered a post-natural planet that can be remade at will through the prowess of geoengineering. This new imaginary is 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. Not merely the fruit of geo-capitalism, this new grand narrative has also been activated by theorists of the constructivist turn--ecomodernist, postenvironmentalist, accelerationist--who have likewise called into question the divide between nature and culture. Denying all otherness to the Earth by internalizing nature, constructivist ecology thus finds itself unable to confront the geoconstructivist denial of nature and its attendant project to replace Earth with Earth 2.0. Against both positions, Neyrat stakes out the importance of the unconstructable Earth, proposing an "ecology of separation" that acknowledges the wild, subtractive capacity of nature. Against the technocratic delusion of a constructible Earth, 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. Frederic Neyrat is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Drew S. Burk is the translator of more than dozen books in continental philosophy and theory. Author Biography Frédéric Neyrat (Author) Frederic Neyrat is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is editor of Alienocene, an online journal that charts the environmental humanities and contemporary theory. His first book in English (following thirteen in French) is Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism (Fordham, 2018).Drew S. Burk (Translator) Drew S. Burk is the translator of more than dozen books in continental philosophy and theory. Table of Contents Introduction: Reconstructing the Earth? 1Part I. The Mirror of the Anthropocene: Geoengineering, Terraforming, and Earth StewardshipThe Copenhagen Chiasm 251. The Screen of Geoengineering 272. The Mirror of the Anthropocene 343. Terraforming: Reconstructing the Earth, Recreating Life 454. The Logic of Geopower: Power, Management, and Earth Stewardship 56Part II. The Future of Eco-constructivism: From Resilience to Accelerationism Turbulence, Resilience, Distance 715. An Ecology of Resilience: The Political Economy of Turbulence 736. The Extraplanetary Environment of the Ecomodernists 837. The "Political Ecology" of Bruno Latour: No Environments, No Limits, No Monsters (Not Even Fear) 908. Anaturalism and Its Ghosts 1059. The Technological Fervor of Eco-constructivism 118Part III. An Ecology of Separation: Natured, Naturing, DenaturingObject, Subject, Traject 13310. Naturing Nature and Natured Nature 13511. The Real Nature of an Ecology of Separation 14612. Denaturing Nature 15513. The Unconstructable Earth 165Conclusion: What Is to Be Unmade? 179Notes 189Index 225 Review "An unflinching critique of geoengineering, this book offers hope in a sliver of uncolonized, unmapped, unconstructed space and time, amid the super-storms of ideology, the teleology of historicism, and the bad faith of political actors with vested interests. Planet earth is not an object or a subject, but a trajectory in time and space toward anti-production, entropy, perhaps extinction--cause for a new political ecology in the time of 400+ ppm of C02."---Karen Pinkus, author of Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary"This is a book of great interest that addresses a topic of considerable concern among environmentalists in North America and Western Europe today--how to find a third way between eco-modernism and an organic and holistic nature."---Ursula Heise, University of California, Los Angeles"This is a vitally important book that stakes out a new position in the environmental humanities. Neyrat offers both a critique of current tendencies in ecological thought and positive proposals for a different philosophical approach. This is not a book of policy recommendations, but rather of basic foundational concerns that any actually policy will have to address and to be answerable to. A powerful and closely reasoned argument that anyone concerned with the fate of the Earth needs to take into account."---Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University Prizes Winner of Grand Prize Winner of the French Voices Translation Award 2019 Long Description Winner, French Voices Award for excellence in publication and translation. The Anthropocene announces a post-natural planet that can be remade at will through the process of geoengineering. With it, a new kind of power, geopower, takes the entire Earth, in its social, biological, and geophysical dimensions, as an object of knowledge, intervention, and governmentality. This shift has been aided, wittingly or not, by theorists of the constructivist turn who have likewise called into question the divide between nature and culture and have thus found themselves helpless against the project to replace Earth with Earth 2.0. Against both camps, this book confronts the unconstructable Earth, proposing an "ecology of separation" that acknowledges the wild, subtractive capacity of nature. Against technocratic delusion, but equally against a racially tinged organicism, Neyrat shows what it means to appreciate Earth as an unsubstitutable becoming that cannot be replicated in a laboratory and that always escapes the hubris of those who would remake and master it. Review Quote "This is a vitally important book that stakes out a new position in the environmental humanities. Neyrat offers both a critique of current tendencies in ecological thought and positive proposals for a different philosophical approach. This is not a book of policy recommendations, but rather of basic foundational concerns that any actually policy will have to address and to be answerable to. A powerful and closely reasoned argument that anyone concerned with the fate of the Earth needs to take into account." ---Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University Competing Titles Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects Dona Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene Ursula Heise, Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species Graham Harman, The Quadruple Object Steven Shaviro, The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism Siegert, Cultural Techniques Szeman et al, Fueling Culture Canguilhem, Knowledge of Life Kearns and Keller, Eco-Spirit Fritsch et al, Eco-Deconstruction Feature A critical analysis of the discourses of geoconstructivism, whereby we are said to be able to remedy ecological problems by simple technical means. Description for Sales People Neyrat argues against both a neoliberal technocracy (in which the earth is an object to be remade) and a new-agey organicism marked by unacknowledged racism and sexism. Details ISBN0823282589 Pages 256 Publisher Fordham University Press Series Meaning Systems Year 2018 Translator Drew S. Burk ISBN-10 0823282589 ISBN-13 9780823282586 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2018-10-16 Imprint Fordham University Press Subtitle An Ecology of Separation Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 304.2 Short Title The Unconstructable Earth Language English UK Release Date 2018-10-16 Illustrations 3 AU Release Date 2018-10-16 NZ Release Date 2018-10-16 US Release Date 2018-10-16 Edited by Robert Saler Birth 1954 Affiliation Neoma Business Sch, France Position Contributor Qualifications OBE,QC Author Drew S. Burk Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! 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