This volume addresses the urgent geopolitical and environmental questions raised by the new geological epoch called the Anthropocene.

Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times

A Critical Atlas of the Anthropocene

Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times offers a critical exploration of the Anthropocene concept. It addresses the urgent geopolitical and environmental questions raised by the new geological epoch. How are we to rethink landscapes, such as river deltas, oceans, or outer space? How can we create spaces for resistance and utopic dreaming? This volume confronts these questions by charting how space and place are constructed, deconstructed, and negotiated by humans and non-humans under conditions of globally entangled consumption, movement, and contamination. The essays in this volume are complemented by artistic interventions that offer a poetics for a harmed planet and the numerous worlds it contains.

Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times is part of the series Future Ecologies dedicated to rethink the multiple ecologies that flourish and struggle on Earth and beyond.

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Publishing Year
2021
Language
English
Pages
218
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978-3-95796-189-1 (Print)
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10.14619/1891

The Editors

Réka Gál is a PhD student at the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto and a Fellow at the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology. She has completed her master’s in Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her main research interests are in feminist media theory, science and technology studies, environmental humanities, and anthropology of outer space. In her dissertation project, she investigates contemporary outer space colonial initiatives, focusing on the implications of human-machine interdependence in outer space as it relates to issues of sustainability and environmental justice.
Réka Patrícia Gál's Author Profile

Petra Löffler is Professor of„Theory and History of Contemporary Media“ at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Her particular research interests include media archeology, media ecologies, archival practices, and material culture.

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