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Exterranean: Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene - Couverture souple

Usher, Phillip John

 
9780823284214: Exterranean: Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene
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ISBN 10 : 0823284212 ISBN 13 : 9780823284214
Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Exterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By opening up a rich archive of nonmodern texts and images from across Europe, this work offers a bracing riposte to several critical trends in ecological thought.

By shifting emphasis from emission to extraction, Usher reorients our perspective away from Earthrise-like globes and shows what is gained by opening the planet to depths within. The book thus maps the material and immaterial connections between the Earth from which we extract, the human and nonhuman agents of extraction, and the extracted matter with which we live daily.

Eschewing the self-congratulatory claims of posthumanism, Usher instead elaborates a productive tension between the materially-situated homo of nonmodern humanism and the abstract and aggregated anthropos of the Anthropocene. In dialogue with Michel Serres, Bruno Latour, and other interdisciplinary work in the environmental humanities, Usher shows what premodern material can offer to contemporary theory. Examining textual and visual culture alike, Usher explores works by Ronsard, Montaigne, and Rabelais, early scientific works by Paracelsus and others, as well as objects, engravings, buildings, and the Salt Mines of Wieliczka. Both historicist and speculative in approach, Exterranean lays the groundwork for a comparative ecocriticism that reaches across and untranslates theoretical affordances between periods and languages.

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À propos de l'auteur

Phillip John Usher is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University.

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Éditeur
Fordham University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0823284212
ISBN 13 
9780823284214
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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9780823284221: Exterranean: Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene

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ISBN 10 :  0823284220 ISBN 13 :  9780823284221
Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2019
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