Exterranean : extraction in the humanist Anthropocene /

Exterranean : extraction in the humanist Anthropocene /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Usher, Phillip John, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Fordham University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Meaning systems Meaning systems.
Subject:	Ecocriticism. Human ecology. Ecocriticism. Human ecology.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13562994

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Varying Form of Title:	Extraction in the humanist Anthropocene
ISBN:	9780823284245 0823284247 9780823284238 0823284239 9780823284221 0823284220 9780823284214 0823284212
Notes:	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 28, 2019).
Summary:	Exterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. 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. Both historicist and speculative in approach, Exterranean eschews the self-congratulatory claims of posthumanism and lays the groundwork for a comparative ecocriticism that reaches across periods and languages.
Other form:	Print version: Usher, Phillip John. Exterranean. First edition. New York : Fordham University Press, 2019 0823284220 9780823284221

Table of Contents:

Cover; EXTERRANEAN; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Incipit: From Sub- to Exterranean; I: Terra Global Circus; 1. Terra Has Standing; 2. Terre's Brilliant Mines; 3. Terra Globalized; II: Welcome to Mineland; 4. Sickly Mountainsides; 5. Demonic Mines; III: Hiding in Exterranean Matter; 6. Geomedia; 7. Saline Intimacies; Explicit; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index