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Simon C. Estok - Slime, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Slime

An Elemental Imaginary

Av Simon C. Estok

Del i serien Elements in Environmental Humanities

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Slime has always stirred the imagination and evoked strong responses. It is as central to life and growth as to death, degeneration, and rot. Slime heals and cures; it also infects and kills. Slime titillates and terrifies. It fascinates children and is the horror in stories and the disgusting in fridges. Slime is part of good sex. Slime is also worryingly on the rise in the warming oceans. Engaging with slime is becoming more urgent because of its proliferation both in the seas and in our imaginations. Inextricable from racism, homophobia, sexism, and ecophobia, slime is the least theorized element and is indeed traditionally not even included among the elements. Things need to change. Addressing growing climate issues and honestly confronting matters associated with them depend to a very large degree on theorizing and thus understanding how people have thought and continue to think about slime.
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'Arguing that as our ecophobic reactions to slime epitomize industrialized cultures' aversion to the natural world, Estok's new volume takes an intersectional, material ecofeminist, and ecocritical approach to slime, invoking perspectives from the primordial, elemental, and oceanic to the supernatural. Estok's widely-inclusive argument reveals slime's implicit associations with gender, race, class, and sexuality and offers new theoretical insights on slime and its history in horror narratives. The discussions about the responses of western cultures to slime are compelling and transdisciplinary. This is a must-read book for anyone in the Environmental Humanities.' Greta Gaard, Professor of English and Women/Gender/Sexuality Studies, University of Wisconsin, River Falls and author of Critical Ecofeminism (2017)

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