Future remains : a cabinet of curiosities for the Anthropocene /

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Imprint:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	xiv, 225 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Nature -- Effect of human beings on. Nature and civilization. Human ecology. Human ecology. Nature and civilization. Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11567693

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Other authors / contributors:	Mitman, Gregg, editor. Armiero, Marco, 1966- editor. Emmett, Robert S., 1979- editor.
ISBN:	9780226508658 022650865X 9780226508795 022650879X 9780226508825
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"This dynamic entry in the burgeoning field of environmental humanities is built around fifteen objects that represent the scope and peril of the Anthropocene--among them a monkey wrench, a jar of beach sand, a Blackberry, a mirror, and a cryogenic freezer box. The objects are framed by six more expansive essays reflecting on the meanings of the Anthropocene for scholarship and the world ..."--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

The Anthropocene: the promise and pitfalls of an epochal idea / Rob Nixon
Hubris. Anthropocene in a jar / Tomas Matza, Nicole Heller
Concretes speak / Rachel Harkness, Cristián Simonetti, Judith Winter
The age of (a) man / Joseph Masco
The manual pesticide spray pump / Michelle Mart, Cameron Muir
Hubris or humility: genealogies of the Anthropocene / Gregg Mitman
Living and dying. Huia echoes / Julianne Lutz Warren
Snarge / Gary Kroll
Marine animal satellite tags / Nils Hanwahr
Artificial coral reef / Josh Wodak
Freezing life in the Anthropocene / Elizabeth Hennessy
Racism and the Anthropocene / Laura Pulido
Sabotaging the Anthropocene; or, in the praise of mutiny / Marco Armiero
Laboring. On possibility; or, the monkey wrench / Daegan Miller
The German calico quilt / Bethany Wiggin
Anthropocene aesthetics / Robert S. Emmett
Making. The mirror: testing the counter-Anthropocene / Sverker Sörlin
Objects from Anna Schwartz's cabinet of curiosities / Judit Hersko
Technofossil / Jared Farmer
Davies Creek Road / Anthropocene cabinets of curiosity: objects of strange change / Libby Robin.

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