Bøger om det antropocæne Kunst og det antropocæne:

Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies 2015 (Critical Climate Change) Paperback – 11 Jun 2015

by Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin (Editor) Taking as its premise that the proposed epoch of the Anthropocene is necessarily an aesthetic event, this collection explores the relationship between contemporary art and knowledge production in an era of ecological crisis. Art in the Anthropocene brings together a multitude of disciplinary conversations, drawing together artists, curators, scientists, theorists and activists to address the geological reformation of the human species. With contributions by Amy Balkin, Ursula Biemann, Amanda Boetzkes, Lindsay Bremner, Joshua Clover & Juliana Spahr, Heather Davis, Sara Dean, Elizabeth Ellsworth & Jamie Kruse (smudge studio), Irmgard Emmelhainz, Anselm Franke, Peter Galison, Fabien Giraud, & Ida Soulard, Laurent Gutierrez & Val&#xE9;rie Portefaix (MAP Office), Terike Haapoja & Laura Gustafsson, Laura Hall, Ilana Halperin, Donna Haraway & Martha Kenney, Ho Tzu Nyen, Bruno Latour, Jeffrey Malecki, Mary Mattingly, Mixrice (Cho Jieun & Yang Chulmo), Natasha Myers, Jean-Luc Nancy & John Paul Ricco, Vincent Normand, Richard Pell & Emily Kutil, Tomas Saraceno, Sasha Engelmann & Bronislaw Szerszynski, Ada Smailbegovic, Karolina Sobecka, Richard Streitmatter-Tran & Vi Le, Anna-Sophie Springer, Sylv&#xE8;re Lotringer, Peter Sloterdijk, Zoe Todd, Etienne Turpin, Pinar Yoldas, and Una Chaudhuri, Fritz Ertl, Oliver Kellhammer & Marina Zurkow. This book is also available as an open access publication through the Open Humanities Press: http://openhumanitiespress.org/art-in-the-anthropocene.html</div> <em></em>

Art & Ecology Now Hardcover – 5 May 2014 by Andrew Brown

Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd; 01 edition (5 May 2014) Language: English ISBN-10: 0500239169 ISBN-13: 978-0500239162 Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 3 x 26.7 cm

Eco awareness has had an enormous impact across all cultural and political spectrums, not least in the art world. This accessible and thought-provoking book is the first in-depth exploration of the ways in which contemporary artists are confronting nature, the environment, climate change and ecology. Organized into six chapters, the book moves through the various levels of artists engagement, from those who act as independent commentators, documenting and reflecting on nature, to those who use the physical environment as the raw material for their art, and those committed activists who set out to make art that transforms both our attitudes and our habits. More than 300 illustrations feature the work of 95 artists and art collectives from all over the world, including The Artist as Family, Nyaba Leon Ouedraogo, Yao Lu, Tue Greenfort, Eva Jospin, Ravi Agarwal, Nadav Kander, Naoya Hatakeyama, Tattfoo Tan, Berndnaut Smilde, Simon Starling, and Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla.

Eco-Aesthetics: Art, Literature and Architecture in a Period of Climate Change (Radical Aesthetics Radical Art) Paperback – 8 May 2014

by Malcolm Miles

Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (8 May 2014) Language: English

ISBN-10: 1472529405 ISBN-13: 978-1472529404 Product Dimensions: 14 x 1.4 x 21.6 cm

By moving beyond traditional aesthetic categories (beauty, the sublime, the religious), Eco-Aesthetics takes an inter-disciplinary approach bridging the arts, humanities and social sciences and explores what aesthetics might mean in the 21st century. It is one in a series of new, radical aesthetics promoting debate, confronting convention and formulating alternative ways of thinking about art practice. There is no doubt that the social and environmental spheres are interconnected but can art and artists really make a difference to the global environmental crisis? Can art practice meaningfully contribute to the development of sustainable lifestyles? Malcolm Miles explores the strands of eco-art, eco-aesthetics and contemporary aesthetic theories, offering timely critiques of consumerism and globalisation and, ultimately, offers a possible formulation of an engaged eco-aesthetic for the early 21st century

Decolonizing Nature - Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology Paperback – Illustrated, 31 Jul 2016

by

T. J. Demos (Author)

Paperback: 296 pages Publisher: Sternberg Press (31 July 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 3956790944 ISBN-13: 978-3956790942 Product Dimensions: 14.7 x 1.8 x 20.8 cm

While ecology has received little systematic attention within art history, its visibility and significance has grown worldwide in relation to the pressing threats of climate change, global warming, and environmental destruction. By engaging artists' widespread aesthetic and political engagement with environmental conditions and processes around the globe-looking at cutting-edge theoretical, political, and cultural developments in the Global South and North-Decolonizing Nature offers a significant and original contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental

Nature (Documents of Contemporary Art) Paperback – 4 Apr 2012

by Jeffrey Kastner

Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Whitechapel Art Gallery (4 April 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0854881964 ISBN-13: 978-0854881963 Product Dimensions: 14.9 x 2.4 x 21 cm

Nature, as both subject and object, has repeatedly been rejected and reclaimed by artists over the last half century. With the dislocation of disciplinary boundaries in visual culture, art that is engaged with nature has also forged connections with a new range of scientific, historical and philosophical ideas. Developing technologies make our interventions into natural systems both increasingly refined and profound. And advances in biological and telecommunication technology continually modify the way we 'present' ourselves. So too are artistic representations of nature (human and otherwise) being transformed. This anthology addresses these issues by considering how the rise of transdisciplinary practices in the postwar era allowed for new kinds of artistic engagement with nature. These include the post-minimalist inscriptions associated with Land art; environmentally engaged practices designed to propose novel forms of stewardship; and more recent projects concerned with relationships between the most subtle and minute components of life and the large-scale appearance of the world. These problematize and unsettle the most basic operations of 'natural' personhood and identity.Including a wide range of writings by and about artists, juxtaposed with influential texts from diverse theoretical bases, this collection provides an overview of the eclectic scientific and philosophical sources that inform contemporary art's investigations of nature. Writers and artists surveyed include: Giorgio Agamben, Jesse Ashlock, Michael Auping, Aziz + Cucher, Gaston Bachelard, Brandon Ballengee, Gregory Bateson, Jane Bennett, Henri Bergson, Joseph Beuys, Claire Bishop, Suzaan Boettger, Roger Caillois, Oron Catts, Mel Chin, Emma Cocker, Steven Connor, Lynne Cooke, Critical Art Ensemble, Walter De Maria, Jacques Derrida, herman de vries, Mark Dion, Vilem Flusser, George Gessert, Oliver Grau, Tim Griffin, Felix Guattari, Hans Haacke, Henrik Hakansson, Peter Halley, Donna Haraway, Helen & Newton Harrison, David Harvey, Pierre Huyghe, Eduardo Kac, Bruno Latour, Pamela M.Lee, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Tom McDonough, Denise Markonish, Mary Mattingly, Ana Mendieta, Laurent Mignonneau, Jacques Monod, Robert Morris, Arne Naess, Thomas Nagel, Trevor Paglen, Jane Prophet, Ingeborg Reichle, Alexis Rockman, Nikolas Rose, Andrew Ross, Tomas Saraceno, Mark Sheerin, Bonnie Sherk, Robert Smithson, Christa Sommerer, Alan Sonfist, Stelarc, Paul Tebbs,

Rirkrit Tiravanija, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Vladimir Vernadsky, Victoria Vesna, Carl Zimmer, Andrea Zittel and Ionat Zurr.

To Life!: Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet Paperback – 14 Sep 2012

by Linda Weintraub Paperback: 352 pages

Publisher: University of California Press; First Edition edition (14 Sept. 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0520273621 ISBN-13: 978-0520273627

"To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet" documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farm's anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkow's 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming. This text is the first international survey of twentieth and twenty-first-century artists who are transforming the global challenges facing humanity and the Earth's diverse living systems. Their pioneering explorations are situated at today's cultural, scientific, economic, spiritual, and ethical frontiers. The text guides students of art, design, environmental studies, and interdisciplinary studies to integrate environmental awareness, responsibility, and activism into their professional and personal lives.

Art & Today Paperback – September 2, 2013

by Eleanor Heartney (Editor) Hardcover: 440 pages Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc.; First edition (April 6, 2008) Language: English

ISBN-10: 0714845140 ISBN-13: 978-0714845142 Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 2 x 11.8 inches

ART & TODAY is the most comprehensive survey of contemporary art of the past three decades. The book's original thematic organization gives a welcome order to the flux of contemporary art. Over four hundred of the most significant contemporary artists from around the world are represented, including emerging as well as established figures. The book's lively, straightforward, and authoritative writing makes the volume a perfect introduction to contemporary art for students in the field as well as anyone interested in the subject. This book is the follow-up to Phaidon's extremely successful ART TODAY.

Outdoor Art: Extraordinary Sculpture Parks and Art in Nature Hardcover – April 14, 2015

by Silvia Langen

Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Prestel (April 14, 2015) Language: English ISBN-10: 3791381180 ISBN-13: 978-3791381183 Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 0.9 x 12 inches

This book offers an astonishing glimpse beyond the garden walls of some of today’s most innovative art spaces around the world―sculpture parks and art situated in nature. From Edward James’s surreal sculpture garden Las Pozas in Mexico to Anselm Kiefer’s sprawling studio complex in the French countryside, artists and art collectors are creating outdoor spaces in order to display sculpture and art that is both transformative and powerful. This book is filled with breathtaking photographs of 25 of these spaces from throughout the world―many of which are not open to the public. Captured in brilliant color, these spaces are populated by works that both enhance and are enhanced by the landscape: rolling hills, mountain lakes, shaded canyons, and empty deserts. Readers will discover Anish Kapoor’s startling red steel tube draped across the rolling hills of New Zealand and an enormous pumpkin created by Yayoi Kusama, which sits on a pier overlooking Japan’s Seto Inland Sea. Each park’s concept is based on a unique theme or idea, and some of these spaces invite contemplation both spiritual and scientific, while others blend horticultural elements with manmade objects. As large-scale works grow in popularity, these collections―built and designed by entrepreneurs, landscape architects, environmentalists, artists, and garden experts―demonstrate the

endless possibilities of displaying art in nature’s realm. Lovers of art, landscape design, and travel will treasure this enchanting excursion into the world’s most impressive outdoor museums.

The Time of the Force Majeure: After 45 Years Counterforce is on the Horizon Hardcover – October 25, 2016

by Helen Mayer Harrison (Author), Newton Harrison (Author

Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Prestel (October 25, 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 379135549X ISBN-13: 978-3791355498 Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 11.5 x 11.2 inches

This book offers a 21st-century manifesto from the pioneers of the eco-art movement. Since the 1970s Helen and Newton Harrison have been creating art inspired by the earth. They established a worldwide network among biologists, ecologists, architects, urban planners, politicians, and other artists to initiate collaborative dialogues about ideas and solutions which support biodiversity and community development. This definitive survey traces an influential joint career that has lasted nearly half a century. Organized chronologically, it features works from each decade, from their earliest installations to their continent-traversing work of the 1990s; and their most recent works both educating people about global warming and designing large scale responses to the phenomena itself. Skønlitteratur:

Biernes historie af Maja Lunde Sprog: Dansk ISBN-13: 9788763851305 Sideantal: 480 Udgivet:19-05-2017

Stærk og medrivende fortælling om biernes død – en global roman om en verden hvor klimaet ændrer sig, om menneskets sårbarhed og om forældre og børn.William er en melankolsk biolog og frøhandler i England i 1852. Han sætter sig for at konstruere en helt ny type bikube, som skal give h... Læs mere am og hans børn ære og berømmelse. George er biavler i USA i 2007, forretningen går skidt, men han håber på, at sønnen kan blive gårdens redning. Tao arbejder med håndbestøvning i et fremtidigt Kina, hvor bierne er forsvundet. Hun ønsker mere end noget andet, at sønnen skal få en uddannelse og et bedre liv end hende selv.En storslået roman om menneskenes første spæde forsøg på at holde bier, over dagens industrielle landbrug og til en fremtid, hvor bierne er forsvundet.

Digte 2014

Theis Ørntoft Digte. Vi befinder os under en økokatastrofe i nær fremtid, eller måske står vi allerede midt i den. En civilisationskritisk digtsamling, hvor scenen er storbyen og en apokalyptisk, kaotisk verden, som er brudt delvis sammen, og hvor naturen er i overtag Udgiver. Gyldendal Udgivelsesår. 2014 Seneste oplag. 11. oplag, 2015 63 sider ISBN 978-87-02-15800-7

Antropocæn Kreatur af Andreas Vermehren Holm Sprog: Dansk Udgivet:02-01-2015 Forlag:H//O//F ISBN-13: 9788799806294 Digte. Med mennesket som centrum stiller Andreas Vermehren Holm spørgsmålstegn ved om vores menneskelige udfoldelse er ved at ødelægge jorden

Planetariske væsen af Andreas Vermehren Holm. Prosadigte med fotos om jordens økokrise. Forlag:H//O//F

Indbinding: Bog, hæftet Sideantal: 80 Udgivet: 30-09-2016 Originalsprog: Dansk ISBN10: 8793499035

Den afskyelige- roman af Charlotte Weitze

Sprog: Dansk ISBN-13: 9788763840828 Sideantal: 317 Udgivet:15-04-2016

Den afskyelige udspiller sig i Norden i nær fremtid, hvor klimaforandringerne er slået igennem. En vild og vidtforgrenet fortælling om fanatisme og stor kærlighed. Og en økopolitisk satire om det umulige CO2-regnskab og det enkelte menneskes ansvar for at gøre noget.Heidi har taget jo... Læs mere b på hospitalet for at være tæt på sin søster. Det er syv år siden, Angelica kom ud for landets sidste skisportsulykke. Hvad der egentlig skete dengang er aldrig blevet helt klart, men Angelica skulle mødes med nogen, og Heidi svor ikke at fortælle det til forældrene.Siden er sneen smeltet på Klaftafjeld, verden er blevet varmere.På hospitalet møder Heidi Kenneth, som døjer med øget svedproduktion. Kenneth er over to meter høj og har kraftig hårvækst. Han har ingen familie og taler ikke gerne om sin fortid, men Heidi forelsker sig hovedkulds. Med sine svedproblemer er Kenneth påvirket af klimaforandringerne og optaget af at modvirke yderligere temperaturstigninger. Men hvad kan det enkelte menneske stille op? Og hvor langt vil det gå?

På ryggen af en tyr - En tragedie af Kristina Stoltz

Sprog: Dansk ISBN-13: 9788763836357 Sideantal: 160 Udgivet: 12-09-2014 Forlag: Rosinante & Co ISBN10: 8763836351

Beskrivelse: På ryggen af en tyr – en tragedie følger den fjorten-årige Fanny, der er på ferie med sin mor og morens elsker i et sommerhus ved havet. Fanny er utilpasset og trods... Læs mere ig på grund af morens skiftende kærester, og hun tilbringer det meste af sin tid på stranden alene. Her redder hun en yngre dreng fra at drukne og indleder et mærkeligt forhold til en ung tjener, der betaler hende for at sove nøgen i sin seng, mens han er på arbejde. Der krydsklippes mellem Fanny, et lækkende olieskib på havet og to unavngivne mødre, der befinder sig ved en skillevej: Den ene er på vej til Paris, på flugt fra sit liv med mand og barn, mens den anden er dødelig syg af kræft på et hospital i Polen. På ryggen af en tyr – en tragedie er en roman om overgangen mellem at være barn og voksen, men er også en historie om identitet, moderskab og økologisk sammenbrud.

Oversvømmelsen- roman af Nina Bolt

Sprog: Dansk ISBN-13: 9788779737563 Sideantal: 215

Udgivet: 02-10-2015 Hanna og hendes tolvårige datter Simone er flyttet op i et hus i Nordsjælland hvor Hanna skal foretage nogle miljøbiologiske undersøgelser af dyre- og plantelivet i vådområderne. Vejret opfører sig ikke normalt. Voldsomme storme og skybrud præger billedet temperaturerne er høje året... Læs mere rundt. Storme. Oversvømmelser. Naturen er under konstant forandring. Men er det her naturligt? Er det normalt? Det hus de har lejet ligger i nærheden af en stor sø og en nat efter et voldsomt uvejr går søen over sine bredder. Huse står under vand og mange er blevet hjemløse. Hanna melder sig til en hjælpeaktion og tilbyder husly til et par af de nødstedte. Et ældre søskendepar Cora og Carl flytter ind. Tilsyneladende nogle meget stilfærdige mennesker der helst vil holde sig for sig selv. Men inden længe viser det sig at de ikke er helt så tilforladelige som de ser ud til. Mere eller mindre umærkelige magtforskydninger begynder at indfinde sig mellem husets fire beboere. Oversvømmelsen er en klimaroman og en psykologisk roman i ét. En fortælling om de kræfter både ydre og indre der griber ind i de planer man har lagt for livet. Om hvordan selv det der er enkelt og ligetil hurtigt kan blive kompliceret.

Lille kakofoni Af Eske K. Mathiesen (f. 1944) Bidrag kunstner: Erland Knudssøn Madsen Udgiver KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad Udgivelsesår 2016 Omfang 36 sider, illustreret ISBN 978-87-91252-68-6

Den sovende sten : digte Af Eske K. Mathiesen (f. 1944) Udgiver Galleri Fjaltring Udgivelsesår 2015 Omfang 23 sider ISBN 978-87-995544-3-0

Isbrud – roman af Ilija Trojanow

Originaltitel: Eistau ISBN-13: 9788779735286 Sideantal: 163 Udgivet: 22-09-2012 Forlag: Tiderne Skifter Indbinding: Bog, hæftet Originalsprog: Tysk

Gletsjerforskeren Zeno hovedpersonen i Isbrud har for at studere isen i dens rene uspolerede form forladt sit universitet i Schweiz og taget hyre som rejseleder på et krydstogtskib som sejler velbeslåede turister på sightseeing til Antarktis. Af kærlighed til

is og i høj grad ogs... Læs mere å til den filippinske kvinde der arbejder ombord lader Zeno sig ansætte på krydstogtskibet igen året efter. Undervejs fra Ildlandet til den antarktiske kyst opstår en række kedelige episoder der gør Zeno mere og mere forbitret. Passagerernes dumhed deres uforsvarlige skødesløshed og respektløse trampen rundt i den antarktiske biotop gør ham fortvivlet en fortvivlelse der bliver til raseri da en populær land art-kunstner ankommer for at iscenesætte en gigantisk klimaevent: Krydstogtets passagerer skal anbringes på isen så de set fra luften danner et gigantisk SOS. Konfronteret med dette letkøbte og komplet tandløse protestshow indser Zeno at der må tages anderledes radikale midler i brug. Han forbereder en desperat og fatal handling hvis budskab medierne dog ikke forstår; det drukner i nyhedsstrømmen sendt i dag glemt i morgen. Ilija Trojanow f. 1965 i Bulgarien hvorfra hans familie flygtede til Vesttyskland. Boede i store dele af sin barndom i Kenya. Trojanow har udgivet flere romaner og modtaget adskillige litterære priser. Verdenssamleren Ilija Trojanows internationale bestsellerroman udkom på dansk i 2011

Solar af Ian McEwan

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. Bu... Læs mere t this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. Læs mindre

Sprog: Engelsk ISBN-13: 9780099549024 Sideantal: 304 Udgivet: 03-03-2011 Forlag: Vintage

Skal vi blinde os selv og forlade Theben af Cia Rinne Sprog: Dansk Originaltitel: Should we blind our selves and leave Thebes ISBN-13: 9788793499164 Sideantal: 60 Udgivet: 01-02-2017 Cia Rinne, hvis bog 'Skal vi blinde os selv og forlade Theben' netop er blevet oversat til dansk af Andreas Vermehren Holm på forlaget Virkelig. Rinnes bog beskæftiger sig med nutidens økologiske krise og den sammenhæng, hun ser mellem den krise og vestens dualistiske filosofi-tradition.

The World Without Us August 5, 2008 by Alan Weisman

New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson Hardcover – March 14, 2017

Publisher: Orbit; 1st Edition edition (March 14, 2017) Language: English ISBN-10: 031626234X ISBN-13: 978-0316262347 Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.8 x 9.5 inches

As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city. There is the market trader, who finds opportunities where others find trouble. There is the detective, whose work will never disappear --- along with the lawyers, of course.

There is the internet star, beloved by millions for her airship adventures, and the building's manager, quietly respected for his attention to detail. Then there are two boys who don't live there, but have no other home-- and who are more important to its future than anyone might imagine. Lastly there are the coders, temporary residents on the roof, whose disappearance triggers a sequence of events that threatens the existence of all-- and even the long-hidden foundations on which the city rests Fag- debatbøger:

Den humane vending - en antologi af Marius Gudmand-Høyer

Med den humane vending er mennesket kommet i fokus. Ikke kun blandt forskere udenfor humaniora, men i hele samfundet. Sundhedsvidenskab handler ikke længere kun om lægers faglige diagnoser, men også om livsstil, madkultur og selvforhold. I virksomheder ses mennesker som en ressource o... Læs mere g en økonomisk faktor. Tilsvarende kan man ikke kortlægge klimaet og dets forandringer uden at forstå den menneskelige faktors afgørende betydning. I denne antologi undersøger otte forskere, hvordan vendingen mod mennesket som et selvstændigt, selvfortolkende og kulturbærende væsen gør sig gældende indenfor erhvervsøkonomi og værdiskabelse, klima og miljø, medicin og biologi samt psykiatri, politisk teori og velfærdsstatsforskning. Den humane vending er nemlig en udfordring for humanvidenskaberne. Viden om disciplinernes genstand og forskernes faglighed bliver stadig mere påkrævet og efterlyst. Alligevel kæmper de humanistiske fag for at retfærdiggøre deres fortsatte eksistens og relevans, og den humane vending udfordrer de traditionelle faggrænser og argumentet for overhovedet at have dem. Men den åbner også op for en ny tværfaglighed, hvor humanvidenskaberne i samarbejde med andre videnskaber på ny kan undersøge spørgsmålet om, hvordan vi forholder os til os selv og vores omgivelser.Med den humane vending er mennesket kommet i fokus. Ikke kun blandt forskere udenfor

Sprog: Dansk ISBN-13: 9788771241518 Sideantal: 440 Udgivet: 08-01-2016

Grænseløshedens kultur (Debat) - et opgør med hastighed, udmattelse og håbløshed i klimakrisens tidsalder af Gregers Andersen

"Grænseløshedens kultur" er en debatbog om klimakrisen og den økologiske krise jordens befolkning står overfor. Bogens mål er at vise, hvordan denne økologiske systemkrise ikke kun kræver omstilling til mere bæredygtig energi, men også en gennemgående kulturel omstillin... Læs mere g. Det er altså ikke kun politikerne og de store virksomheder, der skal skifte kurs - det er os alle sammen, der skal forandre os. Vi er nødt til at sige fra over for den udmattelse og nedslidning, som er de menneskelige konsekvenser af konkurrencesamfundet. Med "Grænseløshedens kultur" giver kulturforsker Gregers Andersen sit bud på en forklaring ved at sætte spot på de vedtagne 'sandheder' og tendenser i kulturen, der blokerer vores evne til at handle anderledes.

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)

by Donna J. Haraway

Paperback: 312 pages Publisher: Duke University Press Books (19 Sept. 2016)

ISBN-13: 978-0822362241 Product Dimensions: 1.9 x 15.2 x 22.2 cm

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene, Haraway explains, requires sym-poiesis, or making-with, rather than auto-poiesis, or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF—string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, so far—Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time

Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures)

by Timothy Morton

Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Columbia University Press (6 May 2016) ISBN-13: 978-0231177528 Product Dimensions: 14 x 2.5 x 21.1 cm

Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Mobius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental to the structure of how things are. The logistics of agricultural society resulted in global warming and hardwired dangerous ideas about life-forms into the human mind. Dark ecology puts us in an uncanny position of radical self-knowledge, illuminating our place in the biosphere and our belonging to a species in a sense that is far less obvious than we like to think. Morton explores the logical foundations of the ecological crisis, which is suffused

with the melancholy and negativity of coexistence yet evolving, as we explore its loop form, into something playful, anarchic, and comedic. His work is a skilled fusion of humanities and scientific scholarship, incorporating the theories and findings of philosophy, anthropology, literature, ecology, biology, and physics. Morton hopes to reestablish our ties to nonhuman beings and to help us rediscover the playfulness and joy that can brighten the dark, strange loop we traverse.

Arkitektur og design

Vitamin Green

by Joshua Bolchover

Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Phaidon Press (May 12, 2012) ISBN-13: 978-0714862293 Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 1.5 x 12 inches

Vitamin Green provides an up-to-the-minute look at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability. This new attention to the life of the things we make is changing the way design is practiced on every level and will be at the center of discussions about architecture, landscape architecture, and product design in the twenty-first century. Projects nominated by an international collection of designers, curators, critics and thinkers were selected to create the best possible sourcebook of the most exciting and original green designs at all scales, from eyeglasses to landscapes and from motorcycles to skyscrapers. The result is an inspirational survey of the enormous amount of innovative work being done in this field, as well as a directory of products, ideas and techniques for both designers and consumers. Filled with projects that are built and in production, Vitamin Green provides a lively and inspiring visual definition of the term 'sustainable design', showing people what really can be achieved today.

Smart about Cities: Visualising the Challenge for 21st Century Urbanism

by Ton Dassen (Editor), Maarten Hajer

Paperback: 184 pages Publisher: nai010 publishers (April 28, 2015) ISBN-13: 978-9462081482 Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.7 x 0.6 inches

Current discussions on urban planning regularly invoke the concept of the smart city―a city based on innovative urban planning, which itself is based on "smart" technologies that are supposed to make cities safer, cleaner and more efficient. But is this actually improving cities? Smart about Cities argues for "smart urban planning" instead of an uncritical embrace of the smart city. Smart urban planning tackles what twentieth-century urban planning forgot―the metabolism of cities, the incoming and outgoing flows that connect urban life with the natural world. Key questions are visualized in 50 infographics: what do cities live on? How much water, food and construction material do they use? What amount of those materials do they dispose of? This book makes an appeal for "global network urban planning" in which technology is not a panacea but is instead

Sustainable Architecture

by The Plan

Series: Details in Contemporary Architecture Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Promopress (June 13, 2017) ISBN-13: 978-8415967187 Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 1 x 12.2 inches

This book offers a visual and in-depth journey of the most innovative examples of sustainable architecture worldwide. From the most cutting-edge studios around the world, this book is a superb showcase of some of the sustainable architectural creations that have set the pace in this field in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Featuring an extensive collection of full-color photographs, we enjoy and appreciate the complexity and tremendous impact that green building has in modern societies.

Fashion Made Fair: Modern―Innovative―Sustainable

by Ellen Köhrer and Magdalena Schaffrin

Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Prestel (June 15, 2016) ISBN-13: 978-3791381763 Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 1 x 11.2 inches

Is green the new black? This beautifully illustrated book pays tribute to contemporary designers whose creations are at once fashionforward as well as sustainable, responsible, and humanely produced. Sustainability is in fashion right now and designers are taking note. With an ever-growing number of environmentally conscious consumers at hand, the fashion industry is responding to demands for products that are both beautiful and resource-efficient. This book showcases the work of today’s designers who are doing just that. It features up-and-coming designers and established brands from all over the world, chosen for their ability to manufacture wearable, highly covetable clothing while also contributing to better working conditions, protecting the environment, and applying innovative design techniques or materials. Included in this book are companies that are rediscovering traditional handicrafts, upcycling designers who reuse textile waste, and consumer-oriented approaches that make high fashion a little more cost-effective. From Vivienne Westwood to Patagonia, Umasan to Mud Jeans, this enlightening exploration features designers and brands that cover the spectrum from casual chic to haute couture as well as interviews with fashion experts such as Bruno Pieters, Lily Cole, and Michael Braungart. Filled with images of gorgeous clothing, this book looks at a revolution in the making and points to a fashion future that benefits the people and the planet.

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert

Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Picador; Reprint edition (January 6, 2015) ISBN-13: 978-1250062185 Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.

The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us By Christophe Bonneuil

Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Verso; Tra edition (January 12, 2016) Language: English ISBN-13: 978-1784780791 Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.2 x 8.8 inches

The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years. How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a “human species” that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent “environmental awareness,” about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science and history, The Shock of the Anthropocene dissects a new

theoretical buzzword and explores paths for living and acting politically in this rapidly developing geological epoch About the Authors: Christophe Bonneuil is a historian at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and edits the Anthropocène series for Editions du Seuil. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, formerly a lecturer at Imperial College, London, is now a historian at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique.

The World We Made: Alex McKay's Story from 2050

by Jonathon Porritt

Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Phaidon Press (October 8, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 0714863610 ISBN-13: 978-0714863610 Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.8 x 9.8 inches

Our planet's future is too often described in terms of doom and despair. However, there is another perspective that is not only positive, but credible, too. The World We Made describes a planet that is green, fair, connected, and collaborative. Based on extensive research, leading environmentalist Jonathon Porritt reveals how we can achieve a genuinely sustainable world by 2050 if we act immediately. Part history, part narrative, The World We Made describes the key events, technological breakthroughs, and lifestyle revolutions that could transform our planet, covering topics as wide-ranging as 3D printing, personal genomics, urban agriculture, and the digital landscape. The book's innovative ideas are brought to life with futuristic photographs, infographics, and hand-drawn sketches, while an extensive index provides the tools and tips needed to prepare for what's ahead. The World We Made is essential reading for anyone interested in preserving our planet. All royalties will support the work of Forum for the Future, one of the world's leading sustainable development non-profits.