Exterranean

Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene

AvPhillip John Usher

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-05
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:521 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Meaning Systems
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Fordham University Press
ISBN:9780823284221

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Mer om författaren

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

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ixIncipit: From Sub- to Exterranean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1I: Terra Global Circus1. Terra Has Standing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242. Terre's Brilliant Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413. Terra Globalized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57II: Welcome to Mineland4. Sickly Mountainsides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805. Demonic Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99III: Hiding in Exterranean Matter6. Geomedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1157. Saline Intimacies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Explicit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199

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Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-05
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:521 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Meaning Systems
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Fordham University Press
ISBN:9780823284221

Utforska kategorier

Mer om författaren

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

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ixIncipit: From Sub- to Exterranean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1I: Terra Global Circus1. Terra Has Standing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242. Terre's Brilliant Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413. Terra Globalized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57II: Welcome to Mineland4. Sickly Mountainsides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805. Demonic Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99III: Hiding in Exterranean Matter6. Geomedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1157. Saline Intimacies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Explicit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199